[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] scgt1:
Since my fiancees SD card took a dump and failed. (Was running CM7 as a dual boot with the Android stuff running on SD since this time last year)

I've had to attempt to read up on this stuff again and It's giving me a headache (everyone talks like every person that comes here is a developer and knows all this stuff) Somehow I've rooted the NT itself and now have android ability while inside the actual NT OS.

I actually prefer this method then having to reboot the system and select if I want the Nook or if I wand Android Tablet. I believe this will work much better for my fiancee also who uses a mouth stick to do everything.

My question is now how do I get CM 10.2 to run on the NT itself as part of the Nook Tablet OS where links will actually work as they aren't right now. I assume because a gapps file was never put on the NT I just rooted it.

What I mean by they are running together is. I can have android in the background where I have multiple widows and application icons. While hitting the N button I can pull up the normal Nook menu. I also have the book icon on the bottom of the screen where I can pull up the current book. If I hit Home on the Nook menu I go right back to the Launcher8 screen that I installed. Currently the desktop is only in verticle orientation and won't switch to horizontal. I assume this is because only some of Android is actually on the system as I don't/can't find the actual android settings. Settings still opens the Nook settings. It is nice having it look like a Windows tablet though which I think will be a ton better for my fiancee to navigate as she can put what ever she wants on the desktop and open things from there that she regularly uses while still being able to take a break and read.

Currently with using this launcher (Launcher8) any icon clicked on opens that icons properties instead of what the icon should lead to. (Assuming this is due to no gaps file and what appears to be not all of android being loaded) I just put this same launcher on my Skyrocket yesterday with cm 4.4 kk so I know how the launcher/loader works and selecting an icon is supposed to open what it goes to not the properties.

Pressing and holding the icon opens the ability to: Delete, resize, or edit the icon. So yea something is deffinately missing from this setup and I assume what I did yesterday just rooted the nook and that's it. Although I don't get how rooting it gets partial android running on it.

Any way I hope I'm not too confusing and hope what I need to do is something easy lol. My head hurts from reading over all these posts/threads trying to figure out what I did and how to finish doing it.

Just for clarification the OP is extremely vague. Where other releases of other Rom's actually walk you through what to do this one says nothing.

"Prerequisites:

A CWM recovery. To install CWM when coming from a stock device, you need to prepare a special SD card. Installation instructions can be found here on xda."

Are you aware of how many prepare an SD card threads there are here? Not only that half of them are outdated and the file links aren't there anymore or they flat out don't state fully what to do especially if you are using Windows and not Linux.

Now for the installation:

"Installation:

Grab a new recovery (e.g. here http://tinyw.in/FKZO) and flash it with fastboot. Only newer recoveries make sure that you can use the "reboot to recovery" feature that is needed for CM updater.

If you have a recent unofficial CM 10.1 installed just try the updater, otherwise download the zip from nightlies, boot to CWM and flash it.

Once a version is installed, you can update with CM Updater

Settings->About tablet->CyanogenMod updates->Refresh"

I know what recoverys are they are an img file. (I got a refresher when I rooted my Skyrocket yesterday and put 4.4 KK on it) CWM/Tsomething or another.

Nightlies is where? Sure maybe Google will show me but that isn't the point.

Now we are supposed to boot to CWM (Recovery) and flash the CM 10.2 Which I'm guessing was to be installed to the NT via the SD card that there is no clarity on as to how to do it as noted above. Once I have the SD card made up and working I get the rest but until then I'm stuck like cement.

Nice on the updater so newbs like myself that have an sd card crash don't have to pull their hair out in all the cluster that is these forums. (Multiple posts about creating and rooting the NT most of which lead to no where because of either missing files or vague incomplete instructions)

So yea here I am with what appears to be a partial Android setup on my fiances NT 1.4.3 which seems to be missing possibly gapps and the actual android settings and such. IE it has the appearance of Android and the ability to use launchers and run the play store but other then that it's broken and incomplete. Which is why I'm looking to run CM 10.2 but would like it to run inside the NOOK OS like I have now and not be a separate boot.

Help I'm a lost newb that is getting mentally overloaded again since I'm not a developer and don't regularly follow these forums. Until yesterday it has been over a year since I was here and at that time there was only "ONE" way to root the NT 1.4.3. and CM7 was what was available at the time. If I'm not mistaken CM9 was in Extreme Alpha state with many things not working.