Thread: Turn your Kobo into a Debian Linux tablet
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Old 10-30-2013, 05:55 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by PereX View Post
Hi, this thread is extremely intriguing, and I'd like to try a Kobo Linux tablet.
Two questions:
1) There seem to be a number of different Kobo devices with different capabilities. Is there a list of devices where this is known to work? (even if it is incomplete!)
2) With tested devices, can the Debian/Kobo device mount a USB drive as a device for reading/writing? With some tablets, the capability to use the USB port to mount a USB stick is called "OTG" (on the go). It is the reverse of the more common activity, which is to use the USB port to connect to a PC, making the tablet the "slave" device.
Thanks for any guidance on this!
-Peter
It will work on the Touch, Mini, Glo, and Aura HD (probably). Though with any device besides the Touch you may have to edit the image file such as is described in this post.

The Kobo does not support USB OTG, so attaching a USB stick wouldn't work. Adding OTG support to the kernel is theoretically possible, but it hasn't been done yet.
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