Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-09-06 Thread sajolida
On 03/09/13 18:40, Alan wrote: * I believe some kind of `sync' must be issued with `dd' too, perhaps with oflags or something, isn't it? I never experienced the need to do anything more than plain `dd`. Did you? I know Alan is a big `dd` fan, so I'm putting him in explicit copy as well so

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-09-03 Thread Alan
Hi, * I believe some kind of `sync' must be issued with `dd' too, perhaps with oflags or something, isn't it? I never experienced the need to do anything more than plain `dd`. Did you? I know Alan is a big `dd` fan, so I'm putting him in explicit copy as well so he speak out. No

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-15 Thread intrigeri
sajol...@pimienta.org wrote (14 Aug 2013 11:22:45 GMT) : Should I create a ticket about it? Should I assign it to you? Fixed already, see 58c80f4. This looks like a nice start, but: * doc/first_steps/manual_usb_installation/mac wasn't updated apparently (`git grep -w cat') * I believe

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-14 Thread sajolida
On 10/08/13 09:58, intrigeri wrote: sajol...@pimienta.org wrote (10 Aug 2013 06:52:12 GMT) : I think there was no strong argument in play when we chose between `dd` or `cat`. If `dd` is easier to prefix with `sudo`, then why not change to `dd`, yes. OK. Should I create a ticket about it?

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-10 Thread sajolida
On 07/08/13 21:34, intrigeri wrote: Arne wrote (07 Aug 2013 19:15:21 GMT) : Because it is quite unlikely that a normal user of a Linux system is allowed to write to the device directly. On most modern GNU/Linux distros that I know of, the desktop user that was created at installation time

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-10 Thread intrigeri
sajol...@pimienta.org wrote (10 Aug 2013 06:52:12 GMT) : I think there was no strong argument in play when we chose between `dd` or `cat`. If `dd` is easier to prefix with `sudo`, then why not change to `dd`, yes. OK. Should I create a ticket about it? Should I assign it to you? Cheers, --

[Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-07 Thread Arne Hitzmann
 Hello everybody, i was playing around with Tails the last days and there might be a little flaw in your documentation how to install tails onto a USB-Stick. The documentation suggesting it like this: isohybrid [tails.iso] --entry 4 --type 0x1c cat [tails.iso] [device] sync But this lead me

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-07 Thread Alessandro Grassi
Hi, 2013/8/7, Arne Hitzmann arne.hitzm...@ostfalia.de: Hello everybody, i was playing around with Tails the last days and there might be a little flaw in your documentation how to install tails onto a USB-Stick. The documentation suggesting it like this: isohybrid [tails.iso] --entry 4

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-07 Thread intrigeri
Alessandro Grassi wrote (07 Aug 2013 18:23:06 GMT) : The troubleshooting section of that page reports a correct way to do it: Is it visible enough? ___ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-07 Thread Arne
Hi, and first of all thanks for the quick answer. Of course it is visible there but this didn't fix my concerns. Because it is quite unlikely that a normal user of a Linux system is allowed to write to the device directly. So i don't understand why it is not the first told practice to switch to

Re: [Tails-dev] Installing Tails onto USB-Stick

2013-08-07 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Arne wrote (07 Aug 2013 19:15:21 GMT) : Because it is quite unlikely that a normal user of a Linux system is allowed to write to the device directly. On most modern GNU/Linux distros that I know of, the desktop user that was created at installation time has write access to removable