Well ...
With the tails 3.12 from the link you gave me, both the dd process
and balenaEtcher on my macbook pro 13 created a usb stick that would not
show up as a boot option on my mac, but started the dell xps 13 ... of
course, no persistence possible as it was not the tails installer, but I
could have cloned it and gotten the full tails. I have been using a
PNY usb3 64gb stick .. the kind with a micro usb on it's other end.
I assume I should go back to using the tails 3.11 as this 3.12 is
probably not fully tested-out yet =)
THANKS FOR ALL THE WORK YOU DO ON THIS !!
Tom
> O.K., I was running a debian mint, so unsure if I should follow the
> deb or the mint instructions.
> With the deb, it hung "forever", did not update cache after adding
> software source, for like 15 minutes (tails 3.12 took 3 .5 min to
> download here).. so I quit it... I loaded tails 3.12 with the
> deb usb image writer instead, that started this dell xps 13 v9343, but
> (of course) would not create a persistent partition. it used 1.2 gb
> for the system. Now I try a straight ubuntu version of mint and...
> same problem, no cache update after adding PPA. like 20 min. wait !
> I first went to my mac, but the instal process there is more of a
> PITA, so I skipped over to this dell/mint. The listed mac options
> were to clone from another tails, burn a dvd, or command line.
> I will go try command line style and write back again soon (I have no
> windoze machine at this moment, tho I might soon be putting windoze
> back on this dell to sell it...
>
> BTW, I recommend setting the default start-up volume "OFF" in the
> tails installations, thanks for all you do !
> =)
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> T:
>>> Well, I tried the usb-direct beta image on a dell xps 13" v9343
>>> I found that it did not work, I looked at the suggestion (below)
>>> ...
>>> Not applicable as the boot attempt gave me "selected boot device
>>> failed. "
>>> I could not make any change to the system at that point, I did try
>>> both legacy and uefi, neither worked
>>> I have an old lenovo thinkpad T61, it worked on it, I have a
>>> macbookpro
>>> from mid 2015, it worked.
>>> I tryed several loaders, etcher (the new version linked on tails
>>> page
>>> comes with an advertisement, unlike the older version I already had),
>>> I
>>> also tried linux disks restore (first time I found disks to be better
>>> than gParted!)
>>> they all worked to boot the lenovo, but none worked to boot the
>>> dell
>>
>> Thanks for the report. Did you try different USB sticks? In order to
>> figure out if this is an error caused by the new USB image, could you
>> try installing Tails on the same USB stick via the old installation
>> method (https://tails.boum.org/install)? Please use the Tails 3.12
>> release candidate ISO for this:
>>
>> dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/alpha/tails-amd64-3.12~rc1/tails-amd64-3.12~rc1.iso
