I moved this to it's own post since it's slightly off-topic and could get lengthy.
I think that this is a good thing, but I don't understand the whole "move" part. What changed? Are there not two separate threads? Do they each have links to the other part?
DanBert, you don't make sense. First you want a highly technical list of features, then you ask for a newbie guide.
I'm not asking for a "newbie guide". Rather, I'm asking for help sorting through what I see a dozens of posts with multiple links all saying variations of the same thing.
While I consider myself a technical guy, what I'm reading does not make sense to me. In my experience, that means one of two things:
- The available information is valuable as is, but there are some details that I don't know or don't understand well enough to make use of that value. In other words, "I don't know what I don't know or understand."
- The available information would be valuable to someone who is thoroughly competent on the subject and all of the supporting details and concepts. Someone less competent (myself) therefore trips over the missing details that the more competent person implements without thinking about them. As a result, the instructions, as written, are not complete.
I suspect you want a bootable disk or exe that'll do all the work for you, but when you rattle off a long list of technical terms like you did, that tells me you're capable of following any of the guides we have posted here and be a better person when it's all done.
If I could build industrial instruments with 1995 Yggdrasil linux (
Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) I believe that I can follow instructions. I even know how to use
dd instead of WindowsImager or similar, so lets get specific as an example.
The instructions say, "insert the uSD card into your workstation." Depending on one's distribution and configuration all sort of things might happen automatically when a workstation sees a new media card. Notice that I said, "might happen." The instructions that everyone seems so proud of fail to mention what they expect to happen based on their use of the simple word, "insert."
A reasonable expectation might include having the existing fat32 file system mounted and read-write to the current workstation session. Oh, wait:
- is the file systems supposed to be fat32?
- if not fat32 then which file system?
- before there are file systems there must be partitions
- before partitions there must be a partition table
- which partition table -- "msdos" is a reasonable expectation, but ...
- is it supposed to be mounted at all?
I say all of this to illustrate that there are "instructions" and there is a "recipe" in my opinion. A "recipe" provides a general list of ingredients and a general list of things to do. (I recently used one that called for a knob of butter, where "knob" was defined as "a couple of tablespoons more or less." (Hardly a precise ingredient.). In contrast, "instructions" are detailed and precise. If prerequisite knowledge is important, "instructions" will identify precise requirements.
I have read dozens of "recipes" for making the desired uSD card.
I have tried several that looked promising.
I have yet to find success among my readings and efforts.
I came here to ask for guidance and maybe find assistance.
It's like building your own car versus Dad giving you one. Which one are you going to appreciate more?
What I said, and what I seek are a very far cry from this simplistic admonishment.
Trust me when I say, that flashing a bootable sdcard, booting off of it and running a few commands in recovery gives you the start of skills that you can use if your Nook becomes unbootable and you need to repair it.
I found several uSD card sellers and could have placed my order online. Instead, I chose to roll-my-own for the precise reason you mention here.
I will continue to tinker and hope to find success.
I will continue to read Android Forums and hope to find guidance and maybe help for this and future situations.
Cheers,
~~~ 8d;-/ Dan
