On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:46 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.
Sounds like whatever configuration of Linux you put on that thumb drive does not have persistent storage, or you didn't save to a persistent partition. This is how the Chirp bootable CD is set up, because it's a CD and not writable. When you created that bootable thumb drive, maybe you accidentally configured it as a read-only bootable CD.
Tom KD7LXL