how are you writing the image? if just dd try balena etcher maybe?

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:41 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On 2021-06-09 15:55, Dennis via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > Okay, I tried dmesg and it showed [there was a partition
> > on /dev/sdc1 ]. When I tried [to mount] that, I got
> > "can't find in etc/fstab".
>
> I put the important parts you left out in []s.  Why are you trying to
> mount things?  You said you want to install Tails to a USB disk.  That
> does not involve mounting anything, but dding the tails-1.2.3.img file
> to the entire USB disk.
>
> If I plug in an old Memorex USB disk, then immediately do "dmesg |
> tail", and I snip all the irrelevant bits, I get:
>
> scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Memorex TRAVELDRIVE 005B
>    sdf: sdf1 sdf2
>
> ...this is a Gentoo USB installation image with 2 partitions, one EFI
> and one with the install data.  So if I wanted to install Tails to this
> USB disk, I would do:
>
> dd if=tails-1.2.3.img of=/dev/sdf bs=1M
>
> ...as a user who had write permission to /dev/sdf .  Note that your USB
> disk will show up as a completely different /dev/sdX device.
>
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