Tails OS

[Matt Graham]

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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