Author: spriver Date: To: Tails list for early testers Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] Call for testing: Tails Installer in Debian
testing/unstable, and Ubuntu
Hi,
intrigeri: > Hi,
>
> spriver wrote (17 Jan 2016 17:19:14 GMT) :
>> I just tried to install with it on my Debian machine
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>> and got following error:
>
>> "tails-latest.iso selected
>> Clearing unreadable partition table.
>> Partitioning device /dev/sdc
>> Formatting /dev/sdc1 as FAT32
>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error creating file
>> system: Error spawning command-line `mkfs.vfat -I -n "Tails"
>> "/dev/sdc1"': Failed to execute child process "mkfs.vfat" (No such file
>> or directory) (g-exec-error-quark, 8)
>> Tails installation failed!
>
> Can you please install the dosfstools package, retry, and report back? After installing the package everything worked fine ;) thanks! I
couldn't spot any errors now, but I was prompted twice for typing my
password because the application desired root privileges. I'll do some
more testing in the following days.
