<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Gordon KF5JWL</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Jim Unroe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com" target="_blank">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">How are you writing the image to the flash drive? I use unetbootin<br>
here and set aside some space for persistence. It works great for me.<br>
<br>
Jim KC9HI<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Gordon DeWitte <<a href="mailto:kf5jwl@arrl.net">kf5jwl@arrl.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Things have been going really well with my CHIRP bootable USB, and I've been<br>
> able to program and update several radios over the last year or more. Now,<br>
> not so good:<br>
><br>
> system boots from USB on my portable PC (running 64-bit Win7 Pro) and I get<br>
> the usual desktop, but cannot run CHIRP — when I double click on the icon, I<br>
> get the timer icon for a while and then nothing<br>
> thought maybe something went south on the laptop, so tried the same flash<br>
> drive in my desktop (running 64-bit Win7 Home Premium), and got exactly the<br>
> same result<br>
> CHIRP update operation in both systems seemed to work fine<br>
> thought maybe something went south with the 8 GB USB flash drive, so<br>
> reformatted it and reloaded everything — same result on both systems<br>
> tried another flash drive (4 GB), loaded everything from scratch, and got<br>
> same result on both systems<br>
> loaded daily build on laptop and it worked fine<br>
><br>
> Any suggestions? I really liked the Live USB option, but now…<br>
><br>
> Sincerely,<br>
><br>
> Gordon KF5JWL<br>
><br>
><br>
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