On 2021-06-09 11:33, Dennis via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I want to get Tails on a usb drive. I went to the Tails website
> followed the instructions to the letter.
>
> I have a 64 gig usb drive set to use. In this instance it is
> /dev/sdd1. I chose the command line installation process.
Are you sure about that? That's the first partition on the disk.
Usually, when you're making a bootable USB drive, you dd the image to
the disk itself, which would be /dev/sdd here. In fact,
https://tails.boum.org/install/expert/usb/index.en.html tells you to
list the devices with "ls /dev/sd?" and to dd to one of those devices.
> Now I’m supposed to restart my (Mint 19.1) system and get to the
> start screen. But the usb drive isn't found.
Is your machine set so that it boots from USB in preference to the hard
disk? It isn't surprising that the USB disk wasn't bootable if you dded
the image to /dev/sdd1. A regular USB disk has nothing in its boot
record or is marked as not bootable.
> I went back to the command line and entered df -h. No 64
> gig usb drive.
df only lists mounted filesystems. The partition almost certainly
wasn't mounted.
> Is there some way to force the command line readout to see the usb
> drive? I can go the computer icon on the desktop and see the usb
> drive. When I try to open it I get "Unable to mount location". Any
> ideas?
The partition doesn't contain a valid filesystem since it's got a boot
record in it. Try again, dding the .img file to the disk, not the first
partition on the disk.
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