Back in September, Lincoln introduced readers to the command line. Since then, we’ve run several posts on the subject.

Though this post isn’t officially a part of the “ProfHacker Guide to the Command Line,” it does offer one example of  how being willing to try using the command line can be useful, even if it’s not a tool that one’s likely to use with any great frequency.

I was fortunate enough to get a NOOK Color at Christmas. Guest author Eric Bubar wrote a post back in August about using the NOOK Color as an iPad alternative. I wanted to do much the same thing, including being able to dual-boot the device—but I didn’t want to have to remove the microSD card to boot into the stock software (those little cards are easy to lose!).

So I did some research, then followed these directions to create a bootable microSD card running CyanogenMod 7. The handy thing is that the card…

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from ProfHacker » Amy L. Cavender, CSC https://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/why-the-command-line-is-your-friend/38009