Re: [chirp_users] An early Christmas present for CHIRP users
Joe,
Glad you got it working.
The liveCD will not save anything to your computer. This is by design to prevent someone from accidentally damaging their Windows installation. If you would like to save the radio files, I recommend one of the following:
1) the "easier" method: after you boot the CD, insert a USB flash drive into a USB port. A window should open. At the top of the window you should see something like 'media disk' or 'media-4B3A' (just examples, not exactly what you will see). This is your USB drive. Linux doesn't use drive letters like Windows does. Anyway, in Chirp, use Save As and either save to the folder /media/whatever (from the top of the window) or save to the desktop and drag and drop. Note: do NOT pull the usb drive out until AFTER you shutdown/reboot the computer. Doing so could corrupt the files on the usb drive (Windows used to be like this too).
2) the preferred method: create a bootable USB (liveUSB) using the instructions on the wiki page of the download site. From there, boot to the USB drive. When you save, it will save to the USB drive. Same warning as above, don't remove the usb drive until after you shutdown/reboot into Windows.
Several people use the liveCD or liveUSB as their primary radio loader, but honestly, that isn't what I built it for. My intent was to get people up and running so they wouldn't throw the radio across the room. Then, knowing that the radio works, the user could get Chirp working on Windows at their leisure.
Let me know how you fare with the save.
Bob
On 12/25/2012 9:53 PM, B Giff wrote:
Joe,
Glad you got it working.
The liveCD will not save anything to your computer. This is by design to prevent someone from accidentally damaging their Windows installation. If you would like to save the radio files, I recommend one of the following:
It is interesting that I saved the file and it showed up as being saved. I didn't try to reopen it. When I reloaded the disk yesterday, the saved file was gone, it never really saved it.
I'll try your suggestions. Thanks.
73, Joe, K1ike
On Dec 27, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Joe wrote:
It is interesting that I saved the file and it showed up as being saved. I didn't try to reopen it. When I reloaded the disk yesterday, the saved file was gone, it never really saved it.
As an FYI, many of the "live" distributions by default use a ram disk overlay that allows files to be written, enabling most things to work as they do on a regular install. However since it is nay written to RAM, the changes only stick around until you reboot.
When creating a bootable USB thumb drive using the utility mentioned, you get the option of creating an area on the thumb drive to save changes. This space is then automatically used instead of the ram disk and you'll be able to see your changes across reboots.
Note: some of the thumb drive installation utilities only give you the option of creating a persistent storage area if you agree to erase the drive and have enough space.
Hope.this helps, --Rob
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