Thanks Mercedes. You are a rockstars for replying to me. I’m installing a USB drive with TAILS and UBUNTU. I plan to boot a machine off of the USB drive and into TAILS. Then format the hard drive and install Ubuntu.
Here is why they said that they need to replace initrd.gz, ldlinux.sys, mbr.bin in tails to make this work. Is there anyway around this? > Yeah, You are absolutely correct, Tails provide way to make usbdrive but for > that that they guide to use following command: > dd if='tails-0.6.2.iso' of=/dev/sdb bs=16M > And If we use the above way, It will make usbdrive which are not writeable > and we cant copy Ubuntu server iso file to this usbdrive, And if we copy > Ubuntu server iso file before run above command, That command first format > entire usbdrive and make tails os by making partition on usbdrive, So in this > case how we will install Ubuntu server without iso image? Best, -Bryan Bryan Starbuck | [email protected] On Jun 5, 2014, at 1:37 AM, mercedes508 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> I have someone telling me that TAILS won’t boot from a USB drive, >> unless these three files are replace (initrd.gz, ldlinux.sys, >> mbr.bin). That doesn’t make any sense to me. >> >> I’m fairly sure this is an attack. Can you let me know if TAILS >> boots just fine without replacing these files? Thanks! > > Tails boots fine without having to modify it. If you have a Mac or UEFI > based computer, better try those ones: > > * https://tails.boum.org/news/test_1.1-beta1/ > * https://tails.boum.org/news/test_UEFI/ > > And if you have a "normal" computer, try downloading tails from that > page: > > https://tails.boum.org/download/ > > Just follow our instructions for verifying, installing Tails, and enjoy! > > Cheers.
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