Author: sajolida Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list, tails-support-private Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Issues
Lucas Gelf: > Hoping this goes through just so I can talk to a human. Support email isn't
> working. Keep getting mailer daemons.
If you tried to send a report using WhisperBack, I also got an error
today and it's probably broken.
I'm forwarding your mail to tails-support-private@??? which should
be working fine.
Sorry for the trouble!
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Lucas Gelf <lucas.gelfond@???> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Lucas Gelf <lucas.gelfond@???>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi TAILS,
>>> I'm attempting to create a dual-partition flash drive, 8GB for TAILS and
>>> the rest for my own personal files for my keychain. It's a 64GB Kingston
>>> DataTraveler USB3.0. I've got two FAT32 partitions on it already.
>>>
>>> I'm on a Mac. Today, I downloaded the ISO (2.9.1), checked it with
>>> OpenPGP, and installed it on the USB drive. I followed all of the
>>> instructions and with minor hiccups, got the transfer to finish. My Mac
>>> (Early 2015 Macbook Air) didn't recognize the interim drive (Kingston
>>> DataTraveler SE9 16GB) even after I installed rEFInd.
>>>
>>> I looked around the internet and ended up buying (not FOSS :() Mac Linux
>>> USB Loader <https://www.sevenbits.io/mlul/> based on a forum user's
>>> advice. I installed the ISO on the USB drive and managed to boot with it.
>>>
>>> I booted into TAILS without incident, but upon attempting to clone the
>>> drive to the next drive, I had no luck. Every time I clicked, nothing
>>> happened. I've attached a video.
>>>
>>> I then downloaded VirtualBox, the VirtualBox Extension Pack, and
>>> installed TAILS in a VM. I passed the USB in and successfully installed
>>> TAILS on it. It did make me clear my partition and BT/WiFi both didn't
>>> work. I'll likely buy one of the Penguin RYF WiFi adapters. That being said:
>>>
>>> Is my live USB via VirtualBox alright?
>>>
>>> How can I partition my drive so that most of it is for my files and only
>>> part of it (4-8GB) is a live USB? Will it work?
>>>
>>> Do you know why any of my problems happened?
>>>
>>> Thanks so much! You guys seem to make a great software package.
>>>
>>> Lucas