Hi, On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:39:06 -0500 Michael James <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I went to try to install Tails on my USB drive manually ( > https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/installation/manual/mac/index.en.html), > and I found out something the hard way. You may want to add a warning > to the end of Step 5, as you do NOT want to attempt to cancel the > process by closing Terminal before the copy finishes. Thanks for the feedback. Do others developers think it's worth a warning? > The USB drive > will swap to read-only mode, and I haven't found a way to get it out > as it resists all attempts to format it and/or change the permissions. I see no reason why resetting the usb stick, e.g. by filling it with zeros would fail. Did you try (hoping /dev/zero exists under OS X and replacing diskX by the right disk): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskX Cheers. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
