Reposting my post from the CyanogenMod forums since i've gotten no replies in 6 hours, then will describe a new development/problem below.

Hi there all,

This is my first time installing CyanogenMod on a device, though I messed a little with custom ROMs on my old phone (Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i).

I followed the guide here to install CM on my new Note, and got through most of the steps (after figuring out one or two issues that popped up). The only thing I did that wasn't quite as the guide suggested was manually copying the ROM image onto my SD card instead of using adb (as it was having issues).

I boot into ClockworckMod Recovery and select "install zip from sdcard" and browse to the rom, then I get this;

ClockworckMod Recovery v5.8.1.8

-- Installing: /sdcard/cm-9.1.0-n7000.zip

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

And it seems to stop there and not do anything further. I let it sit there for ~20 minutes, then I shut the phone down and tried running through all the installation steps again and got the same thing.

What am I doing wrong/how can I get this to proceed? Or does it just take an age to open the zip?

After this I tried downloading the slightly older stgable release (9.0.0) in case it was a rom issue. I formatted my sdcard and flashed copied the rom onto the card but now ClockworkMod Recovery isn't refreshing the file browser in "install zip from sdcard" so I can't try the new ROM.

Any help?