[chirp_users] Bootable Chirp CD & Thumb-drive

[amnon.zohar at gmail.com]

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 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.  




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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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