On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:46 PM, David Evans kd7uch@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, all;
Recently I have been using a bootable CD of CHIRP to take with me to radio club (Voice of Idaho) activities to help newbies program their radios. Works great, but I thought that a thumb drive would be handier since I could store some data files on it. Now, I have a fair familiarity with Linux but this stumps me. I created the boot-able thumb-drive and copied the CHIRP data files to the documents folder on it. They went on with no error messages and opened in CHIRP. Everything seemed fine until I rebooted the system and found that those data files were gone.
So, I am wondering why they were gone and what can I do to fix this.
-- Thanks, David kd7uch@arrl.net
David,
How did you create your bootable flash drive? When I made mine I used a freeware utility called UNetbootin. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
One of the options is to setup the "Space used to preserve files across reboots". If I remember, I took the size of my flash drive and subtracted 500 meg for the CHIRP CD and then allocated something close to the remainder for preserving files.
Jim KC9HI