Tails OS

[Michael Butash]

I rarely ever time luck getting usb boot disks to work using linux tools
for whatever reason.  I keep a usb cd drive and a stack of cdr/dvdr's
around still.

That said, last time I tried, I found arch required a disklabel to be
written that the disk volume shows up as "ARCH" to the OS that it didn't do
by default with ubuntu's iso to usb tool(s), might be something as simple
as that.

-mb


On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:25 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> 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 at 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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