[chirp_users] An early Christmas present for CHIRP users
Hi all,
A CHIRP user has put together something very useful and made it available to the community. It is a "live CD" with CHIRP pre-installed. This concept is common in the Linux world, but if you're not familiar with it, here is a brief description:
Users can download and burn the live CD image to a disc (or a USB stick), which makes the media bootable to a self-contained version of Linux, completely separate from your regular system. Linux supports almost every USB-to-serial adapter without fussing with a driver, which makes this a very easy way to program a radio with very little else (besides a programming cable). Booting this CD on relatively recent hardware is likely to be very easy, and will land you in a point-and-click environment with CHIRP already running for you.
If you routinely program other people's radios, having this disc in your toolkit should mean that you can boot just about anyone's computer to an environment that will run CHIRP, saving you from having to figure out which driver their hardware needs and modifying their system.
If you have trouble with drivers or other issues on your own system, this would give you a relatively simple way to run CHIRP outside of the rest of your system, and without making any changes to it.
If you're interested in checking it out, go get it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chirplivecd/
Be sure to thank Bob (who is on this list) for his hard work!
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 19:37 -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
Hi all,
A CHIRP user has put together something very useful and made it available to the community. It is a "live CD" with CHIRP pre-installed.
................snip
If you're interested in checking it out, go get it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chirplivecd/
Be sure to thank Bob (who is on this list) for his hard work!
Thank you Dan, Bob, and any others that contribute to this project. Great work!
Fred E
First of all, I'm new at this... Is this info meant for Linux users only? I can't seem to get anything to happen after making the CD. I have a UV5R and need to program it. Maybe I'm in the wrong pew?? Merry Christmas, 73 Hugh K7XM
At 13:31 12/24/2012, you wrote:
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 19:37 -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
Hi all,
A CHIRP user has put together something very useful and made it available to the community. It is a "live CD" with CHIRP pre-installed.
................snip
If you're interested in checking it out, go get it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chirplivecd/
Be sure to thank Bob (who is on this list) for his hard work!
Thank you Dan, Bob, and any others that contribute to this project. Great work!
Fred E
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Just curious. What operating system are you running? John K3NXU
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On Dec 25, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Hugh Phillips K7XM jacshitt@mho.com wrote:
First of all, I'm new at this... Is this info meant for Linux users only? I can't seem to get anything to happen after making the CD. I have a UV5R and need to program it. Maybe I'm in the wrong pew?? Merry Christmas, 73 Hugh K7XM
At 13:31 12/24/2012, you wrote:
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 19:37 -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
Hi all,
A CHIRP user has put together something very useful and made it available to the community. It is a "live CD" with CHIRP pre-installed.
................snip
If you're interested in checking it out, go get it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chirplivecd/
Be sure to thank Bob (who is on this list) for his hard work!
Thank you Dan, Bob, and any others that contribute to this project. Great work!
Fred E
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I using windows 7. Hugh K7XM At 15:03 12/25/2012, you wrote:
Just curious. What operating system are you running? John K3NXU
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On Dec 25, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Hugh Phillips K7XM jacshitt@mho.com wrote:
First of all, I'm new at this... Is this info meant for Linux users only? I can't seem to get anything to happen after making the CD. I have a UV5R and need to program it. Maybe I'm in the wrong pew?? Merry Christmas, 73 Hugh K7XM
At 13:31 12/24/2012, you wrote:
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 19:37 -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
Hi all,
A CHIRP user has put together something very useful and made it available to the community. It is a "live CD" with CHIRP pre-installed.
................snip
If you're interested in checking it out, go get it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chirplivecd/
Be sure to thank Bob (who is on this list) for his hard work!
Thank you Dan, Bob, and any others that contribute to this project. Great work!
Fred E
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Hi Hugh,
Well, the live CD is a linux distribution. So when you use it, you will be a linux user.
You have to boot off of the CD. Your computer, if it isn't setup that way already, will have to have the CD/DVD drive set in the BIOS to be listed as a boot device ahead of the hard drive. Then when you boot off of the CD, your PC operating system or files will not be used.
Jim KC9HI
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Hugh Phillips K7XM jacshitt@mho.comwrote:
First of all, I'm new at this... Is this info meant for Linux users only? I can't seem to get anything to happen after making the CD. I have a UV5R and need to program it. Maybe I'm in the wrong pew?? Merry Christmas, 73 Hugh K7XM
At 13:31 12/24/2012, you wrote:
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 19:37 -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
Hi all,
A CHIRP user has put together something very useful and made it available to the community. It is a "live CD" with CHIRP pre-installed.
................snip
If you're interested in checking it out, go get it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chirplivecd/
Be sure to thank Bob (who is on this list) for his hard work!
Thank you Dan, Bob, and any others that contribute to this project. Great work!
Fred E
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On 12/25/2012 5:04 PM, Jim Unroe wrote:
Hi Hugh,
Well, the live CD is a linux distribution. So when you use it, you will be a linux user.
You have to boot off of the CD. Your computer, if it isn't setup that way already, will have to have the CD/DVD drive set in the BIOS to be listed as a boot device ahead of the hard drive. Then when you boot off of the CD, your PC operating system or files will not be used.
Jim KC9HI
I downloaded the file to my Windows desktop, then sent it to a CD. Both of my computers are set to boot CD then HD, but Windows still starts up. I've done something wrong.
73, Joe, K1ike
I downloaded the file to my Windows desktop, then sent it to a CD. Both of my computers are set to boot CD then HD, but Windows still starts up. I've done something wrong.
It's an image of a CD, which means you need to burn it to the CD as an image, not just as a file on the CD. I'm sure googling "burn image to cd in windows" will turn up something useful. I imagine Windows 7 has a way to do this built-in. Both Linux and MacOS have had this point-and-click behavior integrated for years, without add-on software.
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012, Dan Smith wrote:
I downloaded the file to my Windows desktop, then sent it to a CD. Both of my computers are set to boot CD then HD, but Windows still starts up. I've done something wrong.
It's an image of a CD, which means you need to burn it to the CD as an image, not just as a file on the CD. I'm sure googling "burn image to cd in windows" will turn up something useful. I imagine Windows 7 has a way to do this built-in. Both Linux and MacOS have had this point-and-click behavior integrated for years, without add-on software.
I think the answer you want is imgburn from imgburn.com.
My favorite for burning CD images in Windows is ImgBurn ( http://www.imgburn.com/). It is very reliable and free. Another thing you can do is 'burn' the image to a USB flash drive using UNetbootin ( http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/). That's what I did. Jim KC9HI
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com wrote:
I downloaded the file to my Windows desktop, then sent it to a CD. Both of my computers are set to boot CD then HD, but Windows still starts up. I've done something wrong.
It's an image of a CD, which means you need to burn it to the CD as an image, not just as a file on the CD. I'm sure googling "burn image to cd in windows" will turn up something useful. I imagine Windows 7 has a way to do this built-in. Both Linux and MacOS have had this point-and-click behavior integrated for years, without add-on software.
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS
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An excellent Christmas present indeed! I tried it out and it worked first time, didn't even have to mess around with USB ports. Thanks Bob for making this available, what a great tool.
Merry Christmas everyone
Lou VK3ALB
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Lou Blasco