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Old 08-07-2014, 02:44 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by jsherm101 View Post
I tried following your guide from a terminal emulator. It was going well until I tried to untar the Archlinux tar.gz and i got a slew of errors stating

"cannot create symlink from...
Operation not permitted"

Any ideas how to fix this?
The USB storage area is a FAT32 filesystem.
B.G., in his wisdom, did not (and does not) support symbolic links.

Somewhere (early on) in that guide should be the directions for creating a ext2 (or ext3) filesystem in a file and then mounting that file as the destination for your arch distribution.
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