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[Q] Can't get the "rooted forever" screen :-(

I'm trying to root my NST 1.1.2 with the latest touchnooter (touchnooter-2-1-31.img)
I am on a mac and I know how to use the terminal with dd to write the image to the microsd card. However everytime I try to boot my NST with the microsd it just goes to the regular B&N boot screen like normal. Then when it's all loaded it tells me the SD card is damaged and I need to format it.
Has anyone else had this problem? I tried searching around but can't seem to find anything similar.

Slivvy said:
I know how to use the terminal with dd to write the image to the microsd card.
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Read SD (using dd on mac) and compare with original (touchnooter-2-1-31.img)
If it’s the same – try another SD card.

How are you using dd? Are you writing directly to the card, or to the first partition of the card?

I figured out that the card was /dev/disk1s1 by using "df"
Then I run "diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1s1"
Then I run "sudo dd if=nooter.img of=/dev/disk1s1"
After that I get some numbers telling me the ins and outs. If I pull the card out and put it back into my mac it says it can't read it at all, is that bad?

I think you have to write it to /dev/disk1 , but I'm not sure, I never worked with a Mac.
In Linux the card would be sdx, and if there is a partition on it it would be sdx1. But it is necessary to write directly to the card and not to the first partition.

mali100 said:
I think you have to write it to /dev/disk1 , but I'm not sure, I never worked with a Mac.
In Linux the card would be sdx, and if there is a partition on it it would be sdx1. But it is necessary to write directly to the card and not to the first partition.
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Thank you! I think this is exactly where I went wrong. Trying again now.

Slivvy said:
I try to boot my NST with the microsd it just goes to the regular B&N boot screen like normal. Then when it's all loaded it tells me the SD card is damaged and I need to format it.
Has anyone else had this problem? I tried searching around but can't seem to find anything similar.
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Although I have Win XP I had this problem when doing 2 mistakes :
1. I didn't format the SD card before placing the nooters/CWM on the card. I use "SDformatter" for that.
2. The second mistake was not reading properly what was written in the message after formatting = SAFELY REMOVE THE DEVICE. I didn't remove it & I was burning the image straight on the formatted SD card, so that didn't help either.
But after formatting SD card, removing it and then burning the image, I never had that problem again.

[Q] Rooting the Nook and the SD card drama

I have been hoping to root my new NST. I read the instructions numerous times, put my SD card in the holder, and, because I'm using a Mac, typed the various commands into the terminal. A couple of things then did not happen: 1. though I unmounted the disk, I was unable to get the touchnooter image to burn to the disk, even though I was following the directions. One time I got a "permission denied message," and other times I got a "busy" signal. I am not sure what I did wrong, but it resulted in nothing getting written to the sd card. Any suggestions? (It was touchnooter 2.1.31 and the firmware is 1.1.)
Thanks so much!

Make a backup first!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142983
I recently rooted a Nook Simple Touch with the 1.1.0 firmware on a Mac, and I did not have any problems writing the SDcard.
However, TouchNooter 2.1.31 did not work for me.
I wish I had a backup.
Finally I rooted with MinimalTouch,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346748
so if you find out how to write the SDcard, and get into troubles with TouchNooter, you migth want to try MinimalTouch.
Btw, I never had any problems writing the SDcard on a Mac, so I have no idea why it does not work for you. If you save the terminal session log and post it, someone may be able to see what went wrong. Use the script command (see "man script") in the terminal.

here's what i wrote in terminal--what did i do wrong
This is the command I wrote in terminal to get touchnooter onto my SD card, but I got the message that the "resource" was "busy." Not sure what that means, or why I can't seem to write to the card. A previous message said that permission was denied. Here's the script I used:
dd if=/Users/myname/Desktop/touchnooter-2-1-31.img of=/dev/rdisk2
but nothing happened. Is it possible that I have to format the SD card to work with my Mac?
As you can tell, this is all new to me. But I'm trying! Any thoughts on a better way to write this?

The only "resource" I can imagine is "busy" is the disk, /dev/rdisk2
And the only reason I can imagine that it is "busy", is if it still are mounted. (or if it is the wrong device).
Check with
diskutil list​that your SDcard is on /dev/disk2, and unmount it with
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2​
I do not believe there are any difference between /dev/diskn and /dev/rdiskn anymore. Once upon the time it was.

thanks
I think you're right. Will try again... thank you!
Update: I did try again, using touchnooter, and it worked! I've got a rooted NST! many thanks

Suggested rooting procedure May 2012?

This was my way of rooting. Is this the best way of doing things these days? It's here for reference because if someone new comes here it's easy to get lost (which rooter to use etc):
0) Backup using noogie from http://code.google.com/p/nst-recovery/downloads/list (whole root partition - should be ~2gb)
1) CWM boot loader:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360994
2) Format:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475613
3) Root it with MinimalTouch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346748
(skipping sign-in: top left screen touch, top right corner screen touch, bottom right, bottom left... then get youtube via the apps button in the centre bottom then swipe to the right)
I guessed MinimalTouch is a little better than TouchNooter because it allows us to choose USB only adb for better security. I wondered if this is the preferred way now...
If market isn't working then you can install some by adb install, including fdroid, a small alternative FOSS repository. (appbrain apk too?)
4) Then think about multitouch for pinch to zoom. Might as well use the intergrated USB host mode since it's disabled by default it shouldn't fry anything
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1570637
Let me know if I missed anything or got something wrong. Need to disable over the air updates too still?

How to boot noogie from the SD Card?
I have been trying to boot from the SD card but I can't seem to get it to work.
All that is needed is to write the noogie.img file to the SD card, put it into the Nook, and just turn the Nook on right?
Any info would be very appreciated. God Bless ya jago25_98.

I'll let someone else do a better job, but...
1. Acquire SD card, and reader.
2. Write noogie.img (win33diskimager) to the sd card and do the backup thingy. If you did it right, the file should be about 1.9gb in size (an image of the nook's internal storage)
3. Get another SD card (or use the same one) and write the CWM recovery tool (win32diskimager) to the sd card.
4. Place the root zips onto the SD card (anywhere is fine). Do not extract them.
5. Place the SD card in your nook and turn it on. You should get the clockwork boot screen.
6. (Check the CWM post for detailed info) Follow the rooting instructions for the rooting method of your choice.
7. For TouchNooter, wait 24 hours. For MinimalTouch, start playing with your new tablet!
Sorry if these steps are wrong or hard to follow, this is just what I've learned by hanging out here long enough. (someone correct me)

I installed with Nooter. Is it safe to reinstall with another method, like noogie? I want to get multitouch to work but dont know how it works for nooter without cwm.

How to force Nook to boot to noogie.img on SDcard?
brendan10211 said:
I'll let someone else do a better job, but...
1. Acquire SD card, and reader.
2. Write noogie.img (win33diskimager) to the sd card and do the backup thingy. If you did it right, the file should be about 1.9gb in size (an image of the nook's internal storage)
3. Get another SD card (or use the same one) and write the CWM recovery tool (win32diskimager) to the sd card.
4. Place the root zips onto the SD card (anywhere is fine). Do not extract them.
5. Place the SD card in your nook and turn it on. You should get the clockwork boot screen.
6. (Check the CWM post for detailed info) Follow the rooting instructions for the rooting method of your choice.
7. For TouchNooter, wait 24 hours. For MinimalTouch, start playing with your new tablet!
Sorry if these steps are wrong or hard to follow, this is just what I've learned by hanging out here long enough. (someone correct me)
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Thank you for the step by step! That will come in handy! but how to I get the Nook to boot from the SD card when trying to use the noogie.img? I am trying to make a back up (I am on the 1.1.2 firmware version)
I have tried just puting the card in the Nook with the noogie.img written to the card. Then turning it on. But it doesn't boot to the card. I know this because it asks me if I want to format the card so it can be used for storage. And I can cancel that and go to the library and see all my books on the internal storage.
I would really love to turn this into a much more capable tablet by rooting it. But I am at quite an empass with the "booting to noogie.img" issue.

I had the same problem with noogie when I wrote the image with roadkil's, then I wrote it with winimage and I could have the rooted forever screen and I could create my backup image.
I explained it there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26262575#post26262575

albertorrent said:
I had the same problem with noogie when I wrote the image with roadkil's, then I wrote it with winimage and I could have the rooted forever screen and I could create my backup image.
I explained it there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26262575#post26262575
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Thank you, the way its written could very well be my problem. But the only thing is, I only use Linux computers. So a Windows image writing program won't work.
I followed this tutorial for writing the image to the SD card in the terminal: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142983
It uses an entirely Terminal / Command Line way of writing the image to the SD card for both Mac, and Linux. So I'm not sure what the difference is between that and the Winimage program. But at this point I am at a empass, because I can not boot from the noogie.img to be able to do a full back up.
Are there any other Linux users here that may have a solution?

the trick is that you have to write to the root of the SD card... not the first partition.
also, there are better ways to do this now after noogie. I recently blanked mine to experiment with minimal touch. with that you get a cwm recovery onto sdcard. I didn't even boot to bold power button plus 2 lower buttons either side of the screen to get it to boot. I keep that on a separate card now. with it you can Android backup but you need more than 2gb for that. minimal touch root is more what I'm familiar with than the touchnooter. boogie I did ages ago and cant remember the details now

Totally Dead Nook

Yikes! Last night I was moving some files via adb wireless into the root directory of my nst (bad move for a newbie).
Now my nook will not power back on or anything. I've taken the battery out and plugged it back in. Nothing.
The screen is stuck on "Your NOOK has turned off completely" message.
No matter how long I hold the power button, nothing happens.
Have I bricked my device?:crying:

centralpark said:
Have I bricked my device?
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Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?

Renate NST said:
Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?
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I know that I did a backup last November, but I can't remember what it would be called.
Is it an image file?

Renate NST said:
Well, yes, but it's not a big deal. It's fixable.
You need something on an SD card, Noogie, Clockwork Recovery, one of the Nooters.
I'd use Noogie on an SD card and copy your backup to the internal SD card.
You do have a backup?
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I found a file called "SalsichaNooter.img" and wrote it to my sd card via winimage32.
Am I on the right path?
If so,what should I do with it?

That's to say, you don't have a full backup?
The important thing is to always make sure you have a copy of the stuff on the mmcblk0p2 (/rom) partition.
That has all the stuff that is unique to your Nook.
There is also a backup copy on mmcblk0p3 under rombackup.zip
There's a lot of ways to get out of this situation.
I mentioned the Nooters for completeness.
I've never used one and I don't know a lot about them.
My preference would be for putting Noogie on an SD card,
looking at the internal SD card boot partition over USB and copying what's broken from the software update for 1.1.2

Renate NST said:
That's to say, you don't have a full backup?
The important thing is to always make sure you have a copy of the stuff on the mmcblk0p2 (/rom) partition.
That has all the stuff that is unique to your Nook.
There is also a backup copy on mmcblk0p3 under rombackup.zip
There's a lot of ways to get out of this situation.
I mentioned the Nooters for completeness.
I've never used one and I don't know a lot about them.
My preference would be for putting Noogie on an SD card,
looking at the internal SD card boot partition over USB and copying what's broken from the software update for 1.1.2
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I just found my backup!!! It's called "nook_touch_backup.img" and is about 1.82 GB.
If my Nook won't power up at all, is it possible to restore this image to the internal memory?
Also, when I plug in my Nook via USB nothing shows up in my device manager.

centralpark said:
If my Nook won't power up at all, is it possible to restore this image to the internal memory?
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Yes, if it is your backup.
Put Noogie on an SD card, use Win32DiskImager to copy the image to the internal memory.

Renate NST said:
Yes, if it is your backup.
Put Noogie on an SD card, use Win32DiskImager to copy the image to the internal memory.
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My Nook will not turn on even after putting Noogie on my external SD card and then placing it back in my Nook.
Also, my Nook no longer shows up in my device manager :crying:

centralpark said:
Also, my Nook no longer shows up in my device manager
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Well, the Nook is a composite USB device.
It shows up under "Android Phone" or whatever.
It also shows up under USB Mass Storage devices.
It should get a drive letter.
If it doesn't, go to Disk Management and futz and give it one.
Then use Win32DiskImager to write your backup to it.

Renate NST said:
Well, the Nook is a composite USB device.
It shows up under "Android Phone" or whatever.
It also shows up under USB Mass Storage devices.
It should get a drive letter.
If it doesn't, go to Disk Management and futz and give it one.
Then use Win32DiskImager to write your backup to it.
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For some reason, my nook will not show up in "Device Manager" or "Disk Management" on any computer that I have.
It is stuck on the "turned off completely" screen.
No matter what I try, even though the green led light comes on when I plug it in via usb cable, it simply won't power up. The screen won't flicker...nothing.

I presume that you've tried all sorts of long pushes on the power button, 30 seconds?
You may be in that state where it needs the battery disconnect and reconnected.
Some have had luck with waiting until it discharges itself dead-dead.
OTOH, some got in this situation from doing that.

Renate NST said:
I presume that you've tried all sorts of long pushes on the power button, 30 seconds?
You may be in that state where it needs the battery disconnect and reconnected.
Some have had luck with waiting until it discharges itself dead-dead.
OTOH, some got in this situation from doing that.
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I've tried multiple long pushes of power button etc.
Should the screen go totally blank when it's dead-dead?
I think somehow I deleted important files from the root directory last night using adb.
Removing the battery for 20 minutes made no difference.
Thanks so much for all your help.

Are you trying to get to "Rooted Forever" with noogie?

Renate NST said:
Are you trying to get to "Rooted Forever" with noogie?
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I'm trying to get anything to work
Neither flashing noogie or clockworkmod to my external sdcard via win32diskimager caused my nook to come back to life.
I do know that my battery is good since last night it had over 90%.
No matter what I've tried, nothing causes my nook to show up in my device manager.
I only briefly see a message about "OMAP 3630" failed to install drivers.

The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?

Progress
Renate NST said:
The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?
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Hip hip hurray!! Finally, I got sd_2gb_clockwork-rc2.zip to create a bootable sdcard.
I was then able to boot into cwm.
However, my card did not have enough space to put my noot_touch_backup file onto the card.
Also, the internal nook drive still is not showing up on my windows computers.
My card has about 1.74 gb left of free space.
Do you have any ideas on where to go from here?
Oh my goodness!!
I used win32diskimager to restore my nook_touch_backup file to my sdcard...then i rebooted and my old system is back up and running!!
I have no idea why, but I'm scared to turn my nook off again.

ok , i was have the same problem "kinda" , well follow my instruction hope it works with u
connect ur nook with ur computer for 15 mints .... or more .... between that there's a screen will show to u that ur nook cant power on ..... also ....tell me what led show to u "green or orange"
try and replay me
best regards
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centralpark said:
Hip hip hurray!! Finally, I got sd_2gb_clockwork-rc2.zip to create a bootable sdcard.
I was then able to boot into cwm.
However, my card did not have enough space to put my noot_touch_backup file onto the card.
Also, the internal nook drive still is not showing up on my windows computers.
My card has about 1.74 gb left of free space.
Do you have any ideas on where to go from here?
Oh my goodness!!
I used win32diskimager to restore my nook_touch_backup file to my sdcard...then i rebooted and my old system is back up and running!!
I have no idea why, but I'm scared to turn my nook off again.
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good to hear .... but i was have the same problem "kinda" .... anyway
congratulations

Thank You
Renate NST said:
The OMAP 3630 popups when it tries to boot off the USB.
That means that something that you have has a good mlo and u-boot.bin in the boot partition.
Whatever is after that is broken.
I would guess that your SD card is not written correctly.
It's a VFAT, look what's on there.
Is it the first (and only presumably) partition?
Is it marked active and bootable?
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Thank you for taking the time to point me in the right direction today! I truly appreciate it!! :victory:

[Q] Time for a new step-by-step for Nook SImple Touch.

Hello.
I bought a refurbished Simple Touch from ebay and I would like to hack it to access my Google account and to install a better PDF reader.
http://lifehacker.com/5889158/turn-a-99-nook-into-a-fully-fledged-android-tablet-in-four-easy-steps didn't open my nook and caused it to get stuck in the loading mode, showing a screen that the nook is loading after I restarted it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469281 didn't work for me either. My Nook was stuck again. I didn't restore it using a special program. Instead, I turned it off six times to reset factory settings.
I used these files to hack my Nook:
Win32DiskImager.exe
touchnooter-1-6-24.img
touchnooter-2-1-31.img
I am stuck with two micro SD cards that used to be 4GB and now their apparent size is down to 75 megabytes and I don't know what to do since formatting doesn't solve the problem. What should I do to restore the micro SD cards?
The Nook Model is BNRv300
The Serial Number is 301413017......
Please help me install a hack on my Nook Simple Touch Reader.
Thank you.

Follow the steps in this thread. For your micro sd card use a partition manager to erase the partition and format the disk.
Tarakan5 said:
Hello.
I bought a refurbished Simple Touch from ebay and I would like to hack it to access my Google account and to install a better PDF reader.
http://lifehacker.com/5889158/turn-a-99-nook-into-a-fully-fledged-android-tablet-in-four-easy-steps didn't open my nook and caused it to get stuck in the loading mode, showing a screen that the nook is loading after I restarted it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469281 didn't work for me either. My Nook was stuck again. I didn't restore it using a special program. Instead, I turned it off six times to reset factory settings.
I used these files to hack my Nook:
Win32DiskImager.exe
touchnooter-1-6-24.img
touchnooter-2-1-31.img
I am stuck with two micro SD cards that used to be 4GB and now their apparent size is down to 75 megabytes and I don't know what to do since formatting doesn't solve the problem. What should I do to restore the micro SD cards?
The Nook Model is BNRv300
The Serial Number is 301413017......
Please help me install a hack on my Nook Simple Touch Reader.
Thank you.
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rayhan619 said:
Follow the steps in this thread. For your micro sd card use a partition manager to erase the partition and format the disk.
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What steps should I follow?

Tarakan5 said:
What steps should I follow?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351

rayhan619 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351
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I am not sure where are the steps written here. Everything seems to abstract.
The uRamdisk patching is done with scripts rather than copying pre-compiled binaries
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What does that mean? Where do I get the scripts
Under the hood, this is a minimal linux environment with the nook drivers/binaries and a few core android binaries.
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Is this one Linux-based?
What kind of partition software do I use to restore my SD cards that lost volume after my attempt to nooter my Nook?
I am sorry to post this but it seems like there is very few information available for someone who wants to have a rooted Nook but is not a complete expert on the subject. I cannot post on the developer forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351 and it seems like developers are a little isolated from the users of their work.
What do I write to my Nook? Do I need to take out an internal memory that contains the default Nook software on it?
May I get something user-friendly for a common combination of Windows 7 x64 and a Nook Simple Touch?
Is there a any step-by-step solution that is up to date that I can apply to do this?
Thank you.

same boat
I'm on the same boat, new nook with FW 1.0.1
I used these files to hack my Nook:
Win32DiskImager.exe
touchnooter-2-1-31.img
After reboot it try to load and showing progress dots. And on the third dot screen would flash and do this in a loop
I tried factory reset by holding down buttons and after I reset to factory.same loop flashing.

The scripts are included in NookManager. What the author means is that he doesn't just blindly replace original Nook files with his own, he modifies them programmatically so that even if NookManager is used on a version of the Nook firmware that it wasn't designed for, there's a good chance it'll work (though this is no reason to go without a backup first!)
I'd be surprised if all the rooting approaches didn't use Linux under the cover, as a) it's free to use and distribute b) it's commonly understood by devs and many users and c) Android itself uses a modified Linux kernel and UNIX-like user environment.
As for getting your SD card space back afterwards, Windows makes this harder than it needs to be for no discernible reason. Essentially, you need to delete the partitions, delete the second and resize the first, or wipe the entire card and repartition. I don't tend to use Windows for that sort of thing, so I can't give clear advice. But googling phrases like "repartition memory card" seems to throw up useful-looking stuff. It all seems to vary from Windows version to Windows version, though. And the .inf file that is associated with each particular brand of memory card and memory stick.

Just a little tip for getting the SD card back to normal (Windows) is to use the Raspbmc installer. Once you have downloaded it just open it and click on the "Restore device for formatting" button and that will sort it out.
http://download.raspbmc.com/downloads/bin/installers/raspbmc-win32.zip

cowbutt said:
The scripts are included in NookManager. What the author means is that he doesn't just blindly replace original Nook files with his own, he modifies them programmatically so that even if NookManager is used on a version of the Nook firmware that it wasn't designed for, there's a good chance it'll work (though this is no reason to go without a backup first!)
I'd be surprised if all the rooting approaches didn't use Linux under the cover, as a) it's free to use and distribute b) it's commonly understood by devs and many users and c) Android itself uses a modified Linux kernel and UNIX-like user environment.
As for getting your SD card space back afterwards, Windows makes this harder than it needs to be for no discernible reason. Essentially, you need to delete the partitions, delete the second and resize the first, or wipe the entire card and repartition. I don't tend to use Windows for that sort of thing, so I can't give clear advice. But googling phrases like "repartition memory card" seems to throw up useful-looking stuff. It all seems to vary from Windows version to Windows version, though. And the .inf file that is associated with each particular brand of memory card and memory stick.
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I have done some programming in my time, but Linux is not something I want to deal with. There is no way I can edit a program that is already compiled.
What are the steps that I need to follow to get NookManager to work?
Folks, if you are trying to teach the masses for free, how to hack their Nooks then please do it so masses would understand, not a small number of people who are obsessed with Linux.
Just a little tip for getting the SD card back to normal (Windows) is to use the Raspbmc installer. Once you have downloaded it just open it and click on the "Restore device for formatting" button and that will sort it out.
download.raspbmc.com/download...pbmc-win32.zip
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Thank you.

The NookManager instructions aren't as apparent as one might like but they are there at the bottom of the first post on the NookManager thread referenced above:
The download must be unzipped and the NookManager.img file must be written to an empty SD card. On windows, you can use disk imager. Linux and mac users can use dd.
To run, shut down your nook, install the SD card and power on. You should see the NookManager boot screen followed within 15 seconds by the welcome screen.
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Once booted into NookManager just take a look at the menu items - they are pretty self explanatory. Make a backup first then root.

Tarakan5 said:
I have done some programming in my time, but Linux is not something I want to deal with. There is no way I can edit a program that is already compiled.
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Why do you think you need to edit anything? You don't see a Linux or UNIX command line at all during the rooting process.

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cowbutt said:
Why do you think you need to edit anything? You don't see a Linux or UNIX command line at all during the rooting process.
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Where? Nook? I don't know how to get to the rooting process.

Tarakan5 said:
Where? Nook? I don't know how to get to the rooting process.
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straygecko pointed out the installation instructions from the original post above. You can prepare your NookManager memory card from Windows (or Mac or Linux). So no Linux required there either.

straygecko said:
The NookManager instructions aren't as apparent as one might like but they are there at the bottom of the first post on the NookManager thread referenced above:
Once booted into NookManager just take a look at the menu items - they are pretty self explanatory. Make a backup first then root.
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How would I backup by Nook?

Tarakan5 said:
How would I backup by Nook?
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Its one of the NookManager menus. Its really all very simple so I suggest you make your NookManager SD card, boot it up and look through the menus before asking more questions.

rayhan619 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351
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Alright, finally got a chance to do follow instructions, Thanks so much
I'll have to admit i panicked with what stuff Tarakan5 was posting but it is really that simple.
Download any free partition software for XP and delete partition on SD card to leave just one partition,. reformat with SDFormater
Extract image file to PC, and use Win32DiskImager as before.
Voala, it boots to NookManager with a nice menu,
Select option for factory reset.
Nook back ALIVE.
Get latest firmware from B&N
Upgrade from 1.0.1 to 1.2.1
Stick SD card again to boot into Nookmanager again
Select backup (Wait 20 mins)
Boot again and select Root
And I think I'm rooted now.
Thanks
Just gotta find out how to use the rooted nook.

wild03 said:
Alright, finally got a chance to do follow instructions, Thanks so much
I'll have to admit i panicked with what stuff Tarakan5 was posting but it is really that simple.
Download any free partition software for XP and delete partition on SD card to leave just one partition,. reformat with SDFormater
Extract image file to PC, and use Win32DiskImager as before.
Voala, it boots to NookManager with a nice menu,
Select option for factory reset.
Nook back ALIVE.
Get latest firmware from B&N
Upgrade from 1.0.1 to 1.2.1
Stick SD card again to boot into Nookmanager again
Select backup (Wait 20 mins)
Boot again and select Root
And I think I'm rooted now.
Thanks
Just gotta find out how to use the rooted nook.
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I finally figured it out. I installed Nook Manager and it worked.
Is there any way I can browse internet with my Nook on any basic level? I want to be able to see an online dictionary.
Is it possible to disable automatic updates on the Nook? I really don't want to hear from the Barns and Noble capitalists ever again. I have my own books on it and that stupid update that cannot install (for known reasons) interrupts my reading.
Thank you.

Tarakan5 said:
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Is there any way I can browse internet with my Nook on any basic level? I want to be able to see an online dictionary.
Thank you.
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FWIW I use Opera Mobile browser on my NST.

digixmax said:
FWIW I use Opera Mobile browser on my NST.
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It can be installed on to Nook Simple Touch?

Tarakan5 said:
It can be installed on to Nook Simple Touch?
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Yes (NST = Nook Simple Touch)_
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