Fresh Nook to CM7

[GrEn]

I have a new Nook Color ariving today and I had a quick question. I am pretty sure I wont have any issues loading CM7 on as it seems pretty streight forward. Do I need to do anything to root the NC before going on to load CM7 using the CWM Ext4 bootable SD card?

In the guides I have been seeing it says to have a rooted NC before loading CM7 but it seems like running nooter wouldn't do anything other than unlock the default ROM.

Thanks for any help.

 

[darmeen]

No, you don't have to be rooted, but you might want to. That way you can install CWR and make a clean backup of a freshly rooted device.

That way, you have a much more simple process of going back if you ever decided to.

 

[GrEn]

Thank you. I will do that since it's always good to have a backup. I was assuming that I could make a backup from the booted CWR if I didn't need to root. I don't want to wipe the device before I get a clean backup.