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.
Jim