https://github.com/EtchDroid/EtchDroid

An application to write OS images to USB drives, on Android, no root required.
https://github.com/EtchDroid/EtchDroid

android gnu-linux iso kotlin linux mass-storage-device usb

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An application to write OS images to USB drives, on Android, no root required.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/EtchDroid/EtchDroid
• Owner: EtchDroid
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2018-09-02T00:49:40.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-05T08:28:08.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-01T14:04:35.802Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: android, gnu-linux, iso, kotlin, linux, mass-storage-device, usb
• Language: Kotlin
• Homepage: https://etchdroid.app/
• Size: 15.3 MB
• Stars: 1,145
• Watchers: 32
• Forks: 129
• Open Issues: 37
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# EtchDroid



   











  



EtchDroid is an open-source application that helps you write images to USB drives.

Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.

### Supported devices

- ✅ USB flash drives

- ✅ USB SD card adapters

- ❌ USB hard drives / SSDs

- ❌ USB docks and hubs

- ❌ Internal SD card slot

- ❌ Optical or floppy disk drives

- ❌ Thunderbolt-only devices

### Supported disk image types

- ✅ Modern GNU/Linux operating system images, including Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, pop!_OS,

  Linux Mint, FreeBSD, BlissOS and many more

- ✅ Raspberry PI SD card images (but you must unzip them first!)

- ❌ Official Microsoft Windows ISOs from microsoft.com

- ⚠️ Community-built Windows images, made for EtchDroid (be careful: they may contain viruses!)

- ❌ Apple DMG disk images

- ❌ Older GNU/Linux OS images < 2010 such as Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux

## Support the project

If you want to say thanks, you can send a donation.

- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/depau

- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/depau

- One-time options on the website: https://etchdroid.app/donate/

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## Screenshots