(03-06-2020, 11:39 PM)chronic Wrote: That w.as the place I was trying to let it choose the place to put it and I thought it had, but then it didn't, I began looking for where it should go and all was lost. At some point the Oscar page just came onto my screen like a Ghost, I filled out some stuff, decided to put in my sd card, went nowhere.....
I did anticipate all of this, and described it in my post #10 above.
Next time you bring up the Linux terminal window, DO NOT start OSCAR yet. Follow these instructions, because we have to make Linux
able to see the SD Card.
Put the card from your CPAP machine in the Chromebook slot. It's probably a good idea to set the write protect first, (and remember to unset it again before you put it back in the CPAP, although I will verify for you that it should not be required.
The Chrome OS will put up a small window asking if you want to open the SD Card in the files App or to Open Settings. We do want to Open in the Files App, and we have to do this, because it is part of Google's extra security for Chromebooks that removable devices must be specifically allowed to be "shared with Linux". You only have to do this part once.
So when the files App opens, you will see your SD Card listed towards the bottom of the left half of the app, as SD Card. Again, we want to select this legend "SD Card" by clicking once on the touchpad on "SD Card" and then holding down the alt key while clicking once anywhere on the touchpad (or right clicking if you are using a mouse). We will then see a submenu which has as its 4th and bottom choice "Share with Linux". We will select this choice, and we'll have to confirm it in another popup.
Now the Linux subsystem will be able to see the SD Card with all your CPAP data (although we haven't told Oscar where it is yet).
Now start Oscar, (by typing OSCAR and then pressing enter) and we can accept the language choice (or an alternative). It will then ask where to store it's data, and offer a default choice.
Accept this choice. If you absolutely have to change it, we'll come back and do it later.
Then it will want to know if you want to import any Sleepyhead data, and I think the answer should be no at least for the moment. It's thinking there may be Sleepyhead data on the machine already, and in your case there won't be. If you wanted to import Sleepyhead data from your old machine, it could probably be done, but I haven't tried it yet, and we would have to work out how you would transfer from your old system, and how Linux would see the files.
So after you've declined the Sleepyhead Import, you will be at the Welcome screen, and you will have to create a new profile. I'll assume you know how to do that already. It's a new machine, you can use any name you like, and the name is all that is required in the four boxes of setting up a new profile.
Perhaps by now, you've already made a profile. If so, you don't need to make another, you can just open the one you have.
After that, you'll want to import from your SD Card, which we already have on the Chromebook. You may be used to using the F12 key on the keyboard, but as you can see the Chromebook doesn't have those function keys. The rightmost key above the numbers might work, but I don't think I've tried that yet, so let's just use either the "File" menu of the "CPAP Importer" data button on the welcome page.
When you click on that, you will see a box with a progress bar in it and 2 buttons marked "choose a folder and Cancel. The progress bar runs for 20 seconds and it doesn't matter which button you press, I believe the installation you have will always wait for 20 seconds before it gives you a bigger box in which you can tell it how the Linux subsystem knows the SD card.
So I suggest you just wait out the 20 seconds until the File Dialog Box appears. We know about this bug and it may get fixed by the next release.
I think this 20 second period may be your ghost appearance. Be patient.
When you get that box, unlike windows, there are no C: or D: or any drives with a colon in them.
The SD Card is known to Linux as
Code:
/mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/removable/SD Card
and how we get that into the dialog box is to go to the left panel (titled "Places") and click on "File System" (I can see that in your screenshot)
Then go to the panel slightly to the right titled "Name" and double click on "mnt"
Then in the same panel titled "Name" we double click on "chromeos"
Then in the same panel titled "Name" we double click on "removable"
Then in the same panel titled "Name" we single click on "SD Card", and then we click on the "Open" button in the bottom right of that box.
That should start Oscar importing from the SD Card, and when it is done, you should be able to use Oscar as you did before.
