On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 02:42:46PM +1000, Tom via Dng wrote:
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> > On 23 Aug 2024, at 02:12, dng@??? wrote:
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> > You can use Ventoy https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html to boot (almost) every iso image from a thumbdrive. You make the thumbdrive bootable with Ventoy and copies as much as iso images that fit afterward.
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> > Grtz.
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> > Nick
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> I used ventoy for a while until I realised they bundle binary blobs in the source tree. Sounds a bit too similar to xz backdoor for me.

At least that need affect you only during installation.
You should still be able to run the installed Devuan without ventoy.
Of course, this doesn't give you certainty that ventoy doesn't sneak
something in during installation.

-- hendrik