Peter Hansen wrote: > Hello! > I have tried to use tails to no success. > The time spent is some hours over the last 3 days. > My linux experience is about 15 years, I'm a part time linux user. > Mostly using Windows for 100% time and from time to time using windows > and linux 50:50. > My linux level is average.
Thanks for your detail report. Note that the correct mailing lists for user support are: - public channel: [email protected] - private channel: [email protected] > second choice is windows hiding: what in hell is her the on and the off state > of > this choice? > clicking on the string-field gives either a dark grey or a lighter grey > apearance of the text box I agree with you. The behavior of those buttons is confusing, and we are planning to fix this: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7372 https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7801 > Why not use a simple checkbox? On Off would be clear. > third choice is mac spoofing. Same unclear staus as above: What is on > waht is off? Note that we are working on a completely new version of the Greeter, and it will have toggle On/Off buttons like recommended in the GNOME guidelines: https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/greeter_revamp_UI/ Feel free to join in the current discussions about this on [email protected]: https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2014-October/000078.html https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2014-October/000085.html > fourt choice should be a dual choice thing with 2 fields: > gateway etc 1) unproblematic versus 2) some work to do > but the fields don't toggle each other. I think this is already covered by the current plans for a new Greeter. > got tails running, created a second stick from within tails to use persistent > storage. > the creation process stopped at 98%. no more advance even 15 minutes later > maybe, the open, but unused tor browser (ok, it's iceweasel, but would help > naming it TOR in the menue) > was hindering the process. That shouldn't have happened. If you managed to reproduce this error, please report a bug as described here: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/bug_reporting/ > One of the major points for me for using this personal setting is choosing > the > german > keyboard layout. And of course having some bookmarks persistant is a good > thing too. > So I set german keyboard, english surrounding, set some bookmarks > As I thought, these settings would be updated in the persistent storage at > the > moment or at least before rebooting the machine. nope no german keyboard > layout, no bookmarks. > Is there a special procedure necessary that I might have missed? This is not possible for the moment, as explained here: https://tails.boum.org/support/faq#persistent_features But we are working on it (see the mockups of the new Greeter). > Btw: I have put this stick (persistent) into the first mentioned AMD64K8 > machine > and it is > seen in the bios, but while booting , the stick is completely overrun and the > first stop > is at my grub. Could that have to do with the special type of partition used > here? Maybe, but we need more information to be able to help you. Please refer to: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/bug_reporting/tails_does_not_start/ > I AM angry, but not angry on somebody of the tails team, but angry on this > situation. I understand. > As a fallback and proven solution I have my linux boxes with debian linux and > TOR > installed. What I was hoping of from tails was a universal dedicated safe and > anon linux > 'to go' and use on many different machines. Wasn't that the intention? It is. But it is also really hard work. Tails started as a really small free software project and we are still a very small team (at least compared to our number of users) working mostly as volunteers. So we need time and help to make it better: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/ > Some minor points, that are more a personal liking thing: > I don't like gnome, all my machines have kde on them. This gnome comes with > the > menue/status > line on top instead on bottom of the screen. makes me crave. Can that pe > persistently set to > be on the bottom line? We prefer sticking to the default in Debian and GNOME unless we have a very good reason to diverge from that. This is what make Tails sustainable on the long-run: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/relationship_with_upstream/ > The network settings can be stored in the persistent storage. I just had a > peek > at it from my > debain running. Is it really a good idea to store that data? When going from > one > machine > to another with this one stick, wouldn't it possibly mess things up? With a > working dhcp it > should not really cost time to live without persistence. This is why we advertise our users to understand the different features of persistence and use it to the minimum: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/warnings/ On the other hand, it is really handy to be able to save the passphrases of the Wi-Fi networks to which you connect to on a daily basis. > The 'nm-systems-connections' folder is at least populated with data. > The 'Persistent' folder is empty > The 'bookmarks' folder contains a places.sqlite file, which seems to be > without > any links in it > The 'dotfiles' folder is empty > The 'open-ssh-client' folder is empty, now wonder, haven't used ssh on the > tails > machine, so no keys > The gpg and othe folders are obviously populated with default files > The persistence.conf file in the TailsData partittion contains this: > -- > So to sum it up: > Is the german keyboard layout pewrsitently possible? Not for the moment. > What's about the bookmarks? That should work: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/configure/#index10h2 > manually copy them to persistence folder? > A last thought: both machines struggling to run tails at all were AMD K8 > machines. > The syslinux files seem to hae two general options: AMDK8 or 486 (includes > intel > celeron, I think) > Could that be a cause for the readerrors, not finding kernel, not finding the > xxxyyyzzz.c32 > startfile of (I think) syslinux? Please send that to [email protected]. -- sajolida _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
