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Re: Flash/Install issues


 

Hi Jeff

I had the same problem just an hour ago. Now, I am trying to flash the 64 GB USB stick with Balena Etcher (a tool that I successfully used just yesterday on my Arch Linux notebook for flashing a HamPI SD card) and it seems to work. By the way, this time under Win10 on an old Desktop PC. It still runs (now at 21%), so I cannot tell you if it succeeds. But I hope so.

Please give it a try.

73
Udo, HB9ERD

Am 21.08.22 um 02:43 schrieb Jeff Steinkamp:

I have spent entirely way too much time screwing with this. In the military, we commonly referred to this experience as the classic cluster F%^k. I downloaded your HamPC archive from the web link you provided on FB. I also downloaded your Readme file and the How to Flash Image file. I have a 128GB stick so this was perfect for the job, as stated in your file. I downloaded the Rufus program you recommend and got that up and running. Your instructions state that, ¡°You do not need to decompress this file before flashing it to a USB thumb drive.¡± So, I pointed Rufus to this 5GB archive and clicked Start. The fact this process completed in less than 90 seconds had me quite skeptical. And I was correct. It did not boot, even with me forcing the boot menu direct to the USB drive. I then extracted the Image file from the Archive and got a 35GB image file that appears to be an ISO, but has the file type as image. I selected this .img file in Rufus and this time it appeared to write the image to the USB stick as it took almost an hour to accomplish this process. I did have a look at the stick with the Disk Manager in Windows and it does show this drive with 2 partitions, the first at 512MB as the EFI System Partition and the other as a healthy Primary Partition of 32GB and 88GB that is unallocated. But no matter what I try to do, this stick will not boot in my Windows Machine, nor will it boot in the box I have running Linux. So, If I, a computer professional, am unable to get this working, nobody else will either. I did take a look at your README file and the concept you have is good and it does include a lot of ham radio software. But you have to remember that 80% of licensed hams today are nothing more than appliance operators with almost zero knowledge of Linux and hard pressed to pass the license exam for the class they hold. Your Sourceforge/GIT site is extremely sparse when it comes to information and details. It¡¯s back in your ballcourt now. BTW, I neve did find the WiKi!!

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