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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral by swiley on Saturday November 02, 2019 @06:06PM (#21430441)
> ... build a smart boot device that provides a bunch of different CD images for BIOSes that don't do USB boot ...

There’s an Android app for that, it’s one of the biggest things I miss after switching to the iPhone.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral by mmastrac on Saturday November 02, 2019 @06:15PM (#21430480)
That's awesome. Do you recall the name?
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral by nougatbyte on Saturday November 02, 2019 @06:25PM (#21430521)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwareba...
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral by ce4 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @07:54PM (#21430972)
The last time i checked it needed gadget kernel driver support and root, a showstopper for me...

Apart from that, great concept: load your 5+ cd images onto your 64+ gb android and be done (win10, ubuntu, debian, grml, kali, bios update cd image, etc) and forget about your usb drive collection...

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral by swiley on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @07:42AM (#21513572)
I thought modern android required the gadget driver anyway? I’m pretty I was able to use it without root but it was (supposedly) less reliable without it.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral by milkmiruku on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:43AM (#21434497)
Once I didn't have any USB sticks handy and didn't know about DriveDroid, so I used Servers Ultimate to host a TFTP server so I could PXE boot the netboot.xzy image from my phone to my laptop then download+install Arch Linux.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapp...

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