Geez people, you're all going to make me trouble shoot this my self aren't you?
I got past the initial problems I was having, using this guide:
http://www.icarosdesktop.com/icarosfiles/addendum-pendrive122.pdfWhat I did was boot the IcarOS live CD on my main PC. I then followed the guide EXACTLY having of course first formatted my USB drive as FAT, making it primary, and setting it to active.
Anyhow, during the installation, my system began to spit out I/O errors, and I'm not sure if it was referring to my external USB DVD-ROM or my USB Pen Drive, but it seemed to be talking about the Pen Drive.
I tried hitting cancel, skip, retry, etc. but went through and endless onslaught of related error messages.
I then had to turn off my machine and format my PenDrive with partitioning software in Windows as Windows was unable to format it any longer.
I then rebooted IcarOS, but only to find that when I try to prepare my PenDrive for installation, that I get a new error stating that AROS is unable to prepare the partition or what have you. (Sorry I forgot to write down the exact error).
Now if I go into the AROS's hard drive prep tool and reformat the drive in there then try to install AROS, I begin to get those I/O errors again.
Also no matter what I do, I can no longer format my Pen Drive under Windows on ANY of my machines.
The LEXAR JUMPDRIVE USB FORMAT TOOL just bombs out and does not complete it's chore. As does the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool.
I've ran drive tests on the PenDrive and it returns zero errors. Also I have a miniSD which I tried to install IcarOS on, and as fate would have it, I went through the same exact motions and am at the same place with it as well now.
Is this common, are the AROS Hard Drive tools corrupt, is there a way to restore my Pen Drives to factory default so Windows can format them again, and AROS maybe install on them without I/O errors?
P.S. I get the same results using VmWARE.