[chirp_users] Bootable Chirp CD & Thumb-drive

[Jim Unroe]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:46 PM, David Evans <kd7uch at 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 at 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
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