ACMEInstaller demonstration with dualboot capabilities

Internet Darling,

It has been nearly a week since you've heard from us. Far, far too long.

Today we want to introduce you to "A CyanogenMod Experimental Installer", aka "ACME Installer". Once released, it will be a fairly simple and hopefully safe method to install CM to your Touchpad. The process is as simple as we could make it-- once you start ACME Installer, it does all the hard stuff.

In today's video, we take a fresh-from-the-box Touchpad, mount it to a Mac, create a folder called "cminstall" on the TouchPad, copy a "cm-update...zip" file (containing CM7) into that folder, then use the "novacom" program to start ACME Installer. At that point, we sit back and watch the installation. A minute or so later, the TouchPad boots into Cyanogenmod 7. You can switch back to WebOS any time you like.

It's really that simple. Only three special files are needed to make it work:

1. ACME Installer - the installer itself.
2. novacom - a program from HP that is used to load and run the ACME Installer. "novacom" is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows computers.
3. A "cm-update...zip" payload file. This file should be familiar if you have used cm7 before. It contains cyanogenmod itself.

When ACME Installer is released, we plan to include detailed, step-by-step written instructions on using it.

The discussion thread relating to this effort is, as always, at http://kan.gd/10q2

Yours in love,

The Cyanogenmod Team
www.cyanogenmod.com

PS: This demonstration should NOT be interpreted as a sign that any alpha release is imminent. We are still working to get things up to our standards. Thanks for the continued patience, and remember-- NO ETAS!

PPS: sorry for the somewhat shoddy audio and overal sense of unpreparedness, I only had 40 minutes to record this before departure of my flight.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• CM7
• Touchpad
• Installer

[lucky88shp]

where can i get that little stand you are using for you touchpad??

[greentheonly]

@lucky88shp Google for gibson holders

[BennyzEvo]

I did change it, and then it went from the USB to the HP logo and nothing after.

[greentheonly]

@BennyzEvo that means the ACMEInstaller file is corrupted, check it.

If you used the command you actually pasted, it overwrote the correct file.

[greentheonly]

@greentheonly Just have it on your mac

[BennyzEvo]

novacom boot mem:// >ACMEInstaller is this what I have to write in terminal?

[greentheonly]

@BennyzEvo No, but if you replace the '>' with '<' then it would be good.

[EFmw2clan]

Your voice is hilarious. Also, tell the people in the background to stop hammering the walls.

[northcarolinaballa12]

I tried this on a mac. And after i hit the enter it says "no such file or directory" And my tablet is stuck on the screen with the usb symbol. What am i doing wrong? Can anyone help me? thanks

[dcs0582]

@MagicalPaperclip THIS!!!

[dcs0582]

Who's the dipshit doing all the banging in the background? VERY ANNOYING!!!

[DATAFRAMEC]

I think, he's into anime and stuff.

[enzofx]

When I did this, the Novacom daemon wasn't running, any particular why this is so when on a Mac? I had to first start the daemon in one terminal window, then run the install command in another.

[BennyzEvo]

Wait the ACMEinstaller file I have to put it in the touchpad like you did with the other file in the beginning of the video? Or I just gotta have it on my mac cuz I didn't see you install it.