Fresh Install Errors

[Grenti]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')ar -xzvf PlugApps-Linux-2011.02-rootfs.tar.gz # This will take a long time

[pepedog]

Was the drive mounted?
I also got this because fdisk got end blocks wrong, the extract went well for a while then errors somehow un-mounted the drive.

[netter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mikestaszel', 'Y')eah, sounds like a bad drive format. Unplug the drive, plug back in, fdisk and mkfs again, then try again. If that doesn't work, your drive probably for whatever reason doesn't like ext2. I've had a drive that I couldn't format to ext2 before (some cheap non-brand one). Worked with FAT32 and NTFS though...

[netter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mikestaszel', 'M')icroCenter, they were giving out free 4GB drives before Christmas or something like that. Got what I paid for!

[kmihelich]

I don't think it's so much that the hardware is picky, more that it's cheap/corrupted hardware that the Linux filesystems can't correct for. While it's certainly possible for a flash drive to be used for a running system, that's not what they excel at, and it's something they notoriously fail at. When in doubt, use another drive or grab a USB hard drive.