It would take quite a lot of mistakes to wipe the drive, I think you have to okay about three or four screens before it actually writes to the drive, and even then, I believe the default is to install along side the existing operating system. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Unroe" rock.unroe@gmail.com To: "Discussion of CHIRP" chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2018 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Chirp Live CD won't boot
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 1:51 PM Carleton Ingerson maineac58@outlook.com wrote:
I am unable to get Live CD to boot my laptop which has Windows 8.1 for the operating system.
Does anyone have any idea why this is???? I made the cd with the laptop.
Thank you
Carl W1CFY
Carl,
The CHIRP Live CD uses a very old version of Linux that may not be compatible with modern hardware. You would be better off using a live version of Ubuntu "burned" to a USB flash drive with unetbootin set to provide a partition for persistence and then install CHIRP. I've done this with Linux Mint and it works fine. The thing I didn't like was the fact that it always had an "Install" shortcut on the desktop that was just begging for someone to accidentally or intentionally wipe the hard drive.
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