demarks51 wrote:I have read the postings about changing the I8 to the C8 CP but I am still unclear of the very best easiest way to do that without crashing the unit. I really think it would be cool to have an I8 *looking* and acting like a C8. Is it just rebooting with the chumby zip file loaded on a stick posted on another topic?
Um... Isn't this the wrong topic? Did you mean to post it in this: http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=8731 instead? If you do, Doktor Jones? Could you move it there?
Anyway, all it does is create a new parameter that spoofs the hardware version to the control panel only, not the widgets. This way, the widgets won't think it's a Chumby 8 and call innocent unmodded I8s Chumby 8s, and you still get the Chumby 8 dashboard. I'd get the latest firmware first, though. By the way, all you do is boot with the contents of the zip file in the topic that I linked earlier extracted to the flash drive. From what I can see, tylerfixer was just posting that "At your own risk" thing so he wouldn't get sued or something, as everyone responding to the topic seems to have had success.
Remember. I don't have a Chumby 8. I'm just reading off publicly available information to help my fellow Chumbretheren with their problems.