Does anyone use Ventoy to install OMLx?

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. I may have found an easier way to do this.

Copy your desired OMLx .iso file to the Ventoy partiton on the Ventoy flash drive. Boot that.

  1. Open Konsole (terminal) and cd /run/initramfs/omdv/LiveOS
  2. type ls and check that squashfs.img is present
  3. Leave Konsole (terminal) open in that directory
  4. Open OMLx Calamares installer and install your new system

It seems as long as that directory is open and ls shows squashfs.img is present then user will be able to install their desired OMLx system booted from the Ventoy flash drive.

I did successful installs this way using:

Rock znver1 iso #2719 (using xfs file system type)
Cooker x86_64 iso #3401 (using xfs file system type)

and previously had done:

ROME x86_64 iso #3364 (using ext4 file system type)

I am believing this issue is solved. I have not tried using f2fs or btrfs. It is time for other folks to do some testing of those.

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