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Tails – simplified installation method
- freedomben 8y agoVery cool, love this. My only hope is that this isn't so successful that they neglect the installer because nobody is using it anymore :-) For users on another Linux (such as Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu) using USB, this will hopefully be a big improvement. The previous process requiring two USB sticks was a PITA
- offbytwo 8y ago> My only hope is that this isn't so successful that they neglect the installer because nobody is using it anymore :-) Wouldn't that be a good thing? I mean, you'd have a tough time finding a computer for sale in 2019 that even has a CD drive, why care about it so much?
- freedomben 8y agoMy initial thought was that sometimes you want to install it to your hardware, not just a USB stick. If this is a finished install that lacks the installer, then you wouldn't be able to use it to install to a hard drive. I could be wrong tho.
- terrik 8y agoYou could write the image to your hard drive like you would your flash drive. OTH, installing to your hard drive kind of goes against Tails’ ephemeral approach.
- giornogiovanna 8y agoFair enough, but installing Tails onto your hardware is against the spirit of Tails. https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/index.en.html#index6h2 https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/index.en.html#index6h2
- lucideer 8y agoIf you're looking for something Tailsesque for your hardware, have a look at Whonix. Tails is very much made with amnesia in mind.
- joejohnson 8y agoWhat is 'Etcher'? I wish the docs explained that bit a little better.
- shakna 8y agoEtcher [0] is a flashing tool, mostly for USBs and SD cards. It's supposed to make the process of placing an image onto those devices easier, and with less chance of corruption. [0] https://www.balena.io/etcher/ https://www.balena.io/etcher/
- tlrobinson 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etcher_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etcher_(software) `dd` usually works fine if you're comfortable with the command line.
- auxym 8y agoOr, you know, cat. https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479 https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y agoOkay, mark me as one of the lucky 10,000.
- css 8y agoGetting NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID in Chrome when visiting this url.
- sowbug 8y agoMine's OK: SHA-256 Fingerprint 85 DB 84 70 D7 41 15 0C 30 A0 02 C9 47 DB D8 E8 E5 F6 13 21 5C BE 30 3A 36 3D AB B5 65 9A 86 83 and the creation/expiration dates are not near today. Either they are mistakenly serving different versions from different load-balancing servers, or there's something wrong with your browser's cert store, or TLS is doing its job and telling you that you're getting MITMed.
- css 8y agoOn a corporate network so it’s very likely the last option!
- incompatible 8y agoIs there a difference between CDROM and USB drive images? I write Ubuntu iso images to a USB drive with dd, and it seems to work.
- giornogiovanna 8y agoThere isn't a difference nowadays as far as I know, but used to have a computer that refused to boot off a USB. Also, with USBs, you can have a "persistent" install, which lets you keep things, but you have to be careful, because flash memory will die after a certain number of writes.