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franga2000 ◴[30 Oct 25 16:41 UTC] No.45762028[source]▶

Ventoy is great, but what I really miss is DriveDroid from the good old days. It still exists, but it's not quite as reliable on modern Android as it was on rooted Cyanogenmod back in the day and the distro download links have rotten away.

For those not familiar with it, it turns your Android phone into a USB DVD drive, meaning not only can you just download and host any distro with a few taps, you also don't need any hybrid ISOs or anything like that, the computer sees a real DVD so even old or weird machines accept it.

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1. chenxiaolong ◴[31 Oct 25 17:42 UTC] No.45774629[source]▶

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I wrote https://github.com/chenxiaolong/MSD for exactly that. It's a small wrapper around the Linux kernel's mass storage emulation support (CONFIG_USB_CONFIGFS_MASS_STORAGE). It can emulate a read-only optical drive, a readable disk, or a writable disk.

It is compatible with both older devices that configure USB via init scripts and newer devices that use Android's USB gadget HAL, but it does require Android 11+.

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2. franga2000 ◴[31 Oct 25 19:49 UTC] No.45775981[source]▶

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Looks cool, bookmarking for when I finally have a rooted phone again

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