Turn NookColor into a Honeycomb tablet

NookColor is the ebook reader from B&N.com and it is powered by Android 2.
One feature of NookColor is that it will check for the SD card to boot first.
As a result, I can create a bootable SD card with Android 3, i.e., Honeycomb.

There are some good guides, for example.

http://nookdevs.com/Nookie_Honeycomb:_Burning_a_bootable_SD_card


The basic steps are

1) Download Honeycomb image file for NookColor from http://www.rbrune.de/nookhoney04.img.zip
2) Unzip the file and write the image file to a SD card (all existing data will be lost because of image writing). I first tried to use Linux command:

dd if=nookhoney04.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M

where /dev/sdb1 is my SD card driver. But the SD card cannot be booted. Then,
I tried to use an image writer (http://www.winimage.com/download.htm)
on windows and it works. Not sure why.

Also, I bought a Mini SD card adapter so that my computer can read the SD card directly.

3) Since the SD card I used is 32GB, but the honeycomb image is only 4GB. To use the unallocated space, I used the gparted tool in Linux to expend the /sdcard partition on the SD card to take over the remaining space, i.e., 28GB.
4) Insert the SD Card to NookColor and reboot it, then you will be in Honeycomb.
5) The Honeycomb I burn is a minimum one and does not include even Android market.
I downloaded the market and couple other packets from

http://www.addictivetips.com/?attachment_id=44426

Mount the SD Card to my computer and copy the files to the /system/app directory and then change the file permission to be 6755. The commands are similar to the ones in the HoneyGAppInstall.cmd of the downloaded package. But I didn't use the adb tool.

6) Use Market to install some popular apps, for example, FbReader, dropbox, Hot Apps, Astro file manager, advanced task manager, nook, kindle, pandora, the wheather channel, youtube, and so on.