[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] glove0001:
Instructions for SD card to be made external to NT...?

I noticed there are no instructions given in the original post on how to make the SD card external to the Tablet. This would be very helpful and I think required for some people who are having trouble with their Nook at the moment. My NT16 was auto mounting to my Macbook at one point, but that route wasn't well supported by this post. I created the SD card on the Macbook using a hard to find link to a website describing the process of how to mount an iso image file to a usb device using mac OSx. I have once described my difficulty with that process under the Q&A thread. So, now I am trying things over Win XP. A few things have changed and here is my setup: I have a used BN partitioned NT16 and now the battery says it's not charging. Of course the location of the charge cable caused it to get a little bent. But being used and looking online, I can't be sure what is causing the battery not charging. Also, I am unable to get the Win XP pc to recognize the NT when I plug it in. Interestingly, I went from 1.4.3 to 1.4.2 today when B&N repartitioned my Tablet to 8gb-for user and 5.9gb-for BN content.

So here's what I think I understand. This post is designed to root the tablet and lead to the next step of installing custom ROM. I would like to do these steps separately because the largest SD card I have is 256MB. I also have 128 and 64. I don't have a 2GB card. So let's say I am somehow able to root my device. I still don't know what ROM to use. The only reason I want to root is because I don't like the way the Nook runs. I would much rather run regular Android software, but I don't really need to be able to customize it all that much. I just want to be a user of an unlocked Nook Tablet. So which ROM can I install using one of the SD cards mentioned that will give me the best battery life and use the least RAM and also be a user friendly, stable OS?

note, even though it says not charging, I have it plugged into the BN adapter and it has gone up 2% in the last ten minutes.

---------- Post added at 04:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:44 AM ----------

Also, doesn't the SD card need to be formatted to fat32 instead of fat16?

Original post doesn't say. I tried running win32diskimager.exe by plugging in the SD card through a usb adapter and it said not enough disk space after it extracted some of the files. The last file on the list of the extracted was mingwm10.dll. This time I will try using a 256 mb card, the largest I have. Rooting the device using this method is supposed to be easy, and let's say it is... What about the custom ROM, I still don't know what to use or how difficult it will be to install and setup. I'd like to know what I'm getting into before I start and most installation instructions are easily repeated by the author on their own equipment and don't usually cover all the various desktop OS versions in one run through. Basically, what I'm saying, is that there is no single post that can accurately describe everything or at least link to everything. I have to sift back and forth looking all the while scratching my head. I can't find V4_6 either. Your original post download link is for V4_7 but the instructions list V4_6. Now I can't decide which one to use or even which one might be better for me. Anyways, what does it mean to make the SD card active?

---------- Post added at 04:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:13 AM ----------

The minimum SD card size required is probably 256. I was unable to extract to 128 Transflash card, but just succeeded with the 256 Sandisk card using Win xp over USB adapter. Why do it the NOOK?

---------- Post added at 04:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:19 AM ----------

okay so the 256 mb card did something indicating moving forward. I held the power and n button. then let go of the power button. then I saw the cwm screen flash by straight to the factory reset screen. Plugging in the nook to get it to boot from SD hasn't worked.

---------- Post added at 04:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:30 AM ----------

this time i got the cwm screen for almost a whole second before the factory reset screen came on...

---------- Post added at 04:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:46 AM ----------

how can I create this sd card without using the NOOK. Why does this seem to be the best way. I would like to modify my Nook because I don't like the way it runs. Furthermore, I don't really like Win XP, but here I am trying to figure out why this post assumes I really want to be able to make my computer talk to my Nook. I just want to create the SD card. Come on Albert. I have a good point.