

When the process is done, you will have a bootable USB stick with Vanilla OS on it. Open Etcher, select the downloaded disk image and your USB flash drive, then click “Flash!”. Make sure to back up all your important data before proceeding!

Warning: this will erase all data on your USB flash drive. If you wish, you can also use different software that you are familiar with, such as Ventoy or Rufus. To flash the disk image to your USB stick, download and install balenaEtcher. Downloading Vanilla OSįirst, download the Vanilla OS disk image that will be written to your USB flash drive from here. This section will guide you through creating a bootable USB stick with Vanilla OS on it.


The eBook also describes how to configure Ventoy and for more advanced users it contains information on using grub2 commands inside external grub2 menus. Step-by-Step exercises (25+) are included for adding bootable ISOs and other payloads such as Linux, antivirus ISOs, memory test utilities, Windows install ISOs, full operating systems from a VHD file, Linux LiveCD ISOs with persistence and much more. As well as an explanation on the two different types of PC BIOS (Legacy and UEFI), it describes in detail how you can make a bootable USB drive and then copy many different bootable image files onto it. FOR KINDLE DEVICES ONLY (the PDF version is not available from Amazon) This large and detailed book has many illustrations/screenshots and describes how you can boot to dozens of different ISO, IMG, VHD, EFI, WIM and other bootable files using the Ventoy USB boot menu system.
