[chirp_users] CHIRP bootable USB

[Gordon DeWitte]

I use unetbootin and reserve persistence space as recommended on the web
site (e.g., 3350MB for a 4 GB drive); been doing it that way since the
first time I wrote the iso to a flash drive.

Gordon KF5JWL

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> How are you writing the image to the flash drive? I use unetbootin
> here and set aside some space for persistence. It works great for me.
>
> Jim KC9HI
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Gordon DeWitte <kf5jwl at arrl.net> wrote:
> > Things have been going really well with my CHIRP bootable USB, and I've
> been
> > able to program and update several radios over the last year or more.
> Now,
> > not so good:
> >
> > system boots from USB on my portable PC (running 64-bit Win7 Pro) and I
> get
> > the usual desktop, but cannot run CHIRP — when I double click on the
> icon, I
> > get the timer icon for a while and then nothing
> > thought maybe something went south on the laptop, so tried the same flash
> > drive in my desktop (running 64-bit Win7 Home Premium), and got exactly
> the
> > same result
> > CHIRP update operation in both systems seemed to work fine
> > thought maybe something went south with the 8 GB USB flash drive, so
> > reformatted it and reloaded everything — same result on both systems
> > tried another flash drive (4 GB), loaded everything from scratch, and got
> > same result on both systems
> > loaded daily build on laptop and it worked fine
> >
> > Any suggestions? I really liked the Live USB option, but now…
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Gordon KF5JWL
> >
> >
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