Using sudo and untarring the rootfs seems to work great for the first 20 minutes or so, then suddenly, errors aplenty begin to rifle off.

When looking at filemanager, it no longer shows my external memory card, it just disappeared.

Tried like 8 times or so.

I went ahead and used root instead of sudo and it unpacked the whole way through.

It looks like qmount isn't working correctly. What does that error message mean when attempting to mount /floppy?

So either I've formatted the card wrong, the card is indeed junk, or I'm missing a dependency for qmount to do its thing.

Thanks qole for exercising so much patience with me on this.

I'm sure I've been a struggle for you.