Tails OS

[Stephen Partington]

The most successful tool for writing images to USB I have run across. The
only thing it cannot wrangle is windows bootimages.

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:51 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> 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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>>
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>>
>> Stephen
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Stephen
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