<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">how are you writing the image? if just dd try balena etcher maybe?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:41 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2021-06-09 15:55, Dennis via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> Okay, I tried dmesg and it showed [there was a partition<br>
> on /dev/sdc1 ]. When I tried [to mount] that, I got<br>
> "can't find in etc/fstab".<br>
<br>
I put the important parts you left out in []s. Why are you trying to <br>
mount things? You said you want to install Tails to a USB disk. That <br>
does not involve mounting anything, but dding the tails-1.2.3.img file <br>
to the entire USB disk.<br>
<br>
If I plug in an old Memorex USB disk, then immediately do "dmesg | <br>
tail", and I snip all the irrelevant bits, I get:<br>
<br>
scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Memorex TRAVELDRIVE 005B<br>
sdf: sdf1 sdf2<br>
<br>
...this is a Gentoo USB installation image with 2 partitions, one EFI <br>
and one with the install data. So if I wanted to install Tails to this <br>
USB disk, I would do:<br>
<br>
dd if=tails-1.2.3.img of=/dev/sdf bs=1M<br>
<br>
...as a user who had write permission to /dev/sdf . Note that your USB <br>
disk will show up as a completely different /dev/sdX device.<br>
<br>
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