[chirp_users] Bootable Chirp CD & Thumb-drive
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.
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
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
Jim, That is the way I crested mine. It is the procedure described in the wiki.
Thanks, David
kd7uch@arrl.net
could be that you have a fake drive . when it declares a larger size it writes to the air
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From: Jim Unroe Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:42 AM To: Discussion of CHIRP
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.
I want to thank everyone who responded. I found the problem. Evidently, when I created the thumb-drive I overlooked the setting for file persistence. I know better than that but when I recreated the drive everything worked as expected, so that must have been the trouble all along.
Anyway, I sure appreciate this group and the different things I read about here.
Thanks, David
kd7uch@arrl.net On Jul 29, 2013 6:46 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
Excellent... Enjoy your new toy.
John K3NXU Http://www.miklor.com
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On Aug 4, 2013, at 10:24 PM, David Evans kd7uch@gmail.com wrote:
I want to thank everyone who responded. I found the problem. Evidently, when I created the thumb-drive I overlooked the setting for file persistence. I know better than that but when I recreated the drive everything worked as expected, so that must have been the trouble all along.
Anyway, I sure appreciate this group and the different things I read about here.
Thanks, David
kd7uch@arrl.net
On Jul 29, 2013 6:46 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
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