OK two new things, first, I was not using root. I put in sudo -s -H and my password when prompted and then I could see I was root.

Second thing. I still could not get flasher to work. In frustration I tried a newer version flasher-3.0 and wit root established it worked great. I am in USB host mode. Now all I have to do is build a power adapter.

Does anyone have an idea on the e2fsprogs install? I added another repository from the wiki and was able to load some of the missing files manually from a web based ftp through the application manager. But there are still some files missing according to the build dialog. Anybody know of where there is a complete repository for this?

Thanks for all of your help so far.

santa_matt