Preparing the storage medium
At this stage, it is a very good idea to use an externally-powered USB hub. USB-attached hard drives will need this extra power to operate properly. If you are using a wireless adapter and any other USB peripheral, you should consider moving them over to the powered USB hub.
Tip
Make sure that you are not using a drive with important files. This chapter will show you how to format drives and use other file systems. All the data on your drives will be lost.
For simplicity, in this chapter, we will be using an 8 GB USB flash drive; but the concept is the same for USB hard drives.
Get Raspberry Pi 2 Server Essentials now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
