Manual Installation - Canon Camera Hackers Manual

Now you may transfer the CHDK to your card. Press the button
CHDK > Card and select the downloaded file. CardTricks will simply unzip
this file into the card.
Remove the card from the card reader. Set the write protection by mov-
ing the little slider away from the contacts. This will enable the AUTORUN
feature. Don't be afraid, the camera will still be able to write pictures to the
card. The CHDK will see to that.
Finished. Keep your fingers crossed and insert the card into your camera.
Switch the camera on. Shortly after the Canon splash screen, the CHDK
splash screen will appear. If this is the case, you have successfully installed
the CHDK on your Canon camera.
3.4

Manual installation

CardTricks is a Windows-based program. If you work with a Mac
Linux, you will not be able to use it (though it might be possible through an
emulator). But there is another method to get the CHDK up and running:
1. First, format the card with the FAT16 file system. This must be done
with a card reader and a computer—the camera would format your
card with FAT32. (On the Macintosh, invoke the terminal program and
enter "df" to start the harddisk manager. Then enter a formatting com-
mand such as "newfs_msdos -F16 /dev/cardname" where "cardname"
is the volume name of your card.)
2. Then, make an educated guess at your firmware version. Download the
corresponding CHDK binaries and unpack them to your card. Again, you
need a card reader to do so.
3 A script for easy installation on the Mac is found on
wiki/FAQ/Mac.
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or with
http://chdk.wikia.com/
3.4 Manual installation
Figure 3-3
4 GB SD card with the slider in
write-protection position.
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