HenryBoot

An All-In-One bootable USB drive that works on any architecture and contains many useful tools.

Installation / Quickstart

Prequisites

7-zip
A USB drive or SD/MicroSD card with a minimum of 8GB on it (for the lightest of installation weights). 32-128GB drives are HIGHLY recommended for a better experience.

Let's get started!

Download the repo and extract it somewhere.
Download Ventoy (can be found here) and run it.
It will present you with a screen that looks like this:

Select your target USB drive, then click install.
Next, copy all the files in the github repo except for LICENSE and README.md to your USB drive once you finish formatting the drive.
For the next step, go here and wait for the image to download.
Once downloaded, move the image to your USB drive and rename it EXACTLY to Lubuntu-21.10-Preloaded.iso.
Open the persistence folder. The only current supported persistence image is Lubuntu, which is why you just downloaded it.
Next, download this file and unzip it somewhere. This part requires 7-zip to be installed.
Go into the folder of images you just downloaded and find persistence_xfs_4GB_casper-rw.dat and copy it to the persistence folder on your USB drive.
Almost done!
Now, rename that fine EXACTLY to lubuntu_4GB.dat. Done! Now, go into your BIOS and boot from the drive! You should be presented with a screen like this: If you don't see a screen looking similar to that, you've done something wrong.

To add more operating systems, see below.

Tested Images

If an image is in bold, it supports persistence using the persistence_xfs_4GB_casper-rw.dat image. Please note: for proper menu aliases for untested images, you need to add your image to the json file in the root of the /ventoy folder in this format:

    ...
    "menu_alias": [
        ...
        {
            "image": "/myimage.iso",
            "alias": "My Image's Alias"
        },
        ...
    ]
    ...

OR Rename the file you download from the download links below to the name specified in the list.

The following is a list of tested images.

elementaryos-6.0-stable.20211103.iso
endeavouros-2021.08.27-x86_64.iso
KDEneon.iso
kubuntu-21.10-desktop-amd64.iso
Lakka-Generic.x86_64-3.6.img (Requires 7-zip for extraction of archive once downloaded)
linux-lite-5.6-64bit.iso
Lubuntu-21.10-Preloaded.iso (Just follow the quickstart guide for this one)
MXlinux-21_x64.iso
Parrot-home-4.11.3_amd64.iso
WindowsRecovery.iso
xubuntu-21.10-desktop-amd64.iso
Zorin-OS-16-Core.iso

Want to submit a successfully tested image? Make an issue and use the tested image template.

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