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Skywalker, thanks for the installation tutorial. It seems very comprehensive.
One question. I installed to an 8Gb Sandisk SD card. Contrary to point 21, I found that I had to install the CHDK folder to the larger partition. The camera only looked there for scripts, grids, etc.
Did I do something wrong?
Thanks
I'm not quite clear what your question is, but I'll try to cover what I think you wanted to know.
"Contrary to point 21, I found that I had to install the CHDK folder to the larger partition." Actually, that is the partition that I recommended. If you copied the CHDK folder during step 21, then you actually copied it to the larger partition and that is the one I use & recommend.
"The camera only looked there for scripts, grids, etc." From what I understand of how the camera is operating, I suspect that it will find what it needs in either partition. The only exception that I'm aware of is the DISKBOOT.BIN file and that needs to be in the bootable partition (in our case the smaller partition).
"Did I do something wrong?" From what I read, you put the CHDK folder on the larger partition, so you did what I'd recommend. Now if your CHDK isn't working, then I'd check one of the following:
- Make sure your SD card is locked to use it in the camera
- Be sure that the smaller, bootable partition is the active partition. You can check this with the SDM Installer. When you put the card in your reader the first field of SDM Installer should state that it's (FAT12) (Bootable card!!!). That's what you want it to be for CHDK to autoboot on start up.
If I didn't answer what you were asking about, please let me know. I'll be out of town until Sunday evening, so if you need help before then just leave a reply and hopefully someone can answer your question.
