Alan: > 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?
I'd like to make sure this is really that bad. >> 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 Yes, what happens if you try the procedure again, and do `dd` on the same USB stick?
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