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I'm trying to install TAILS. I've downloaded and verified it and everything and I'm on to installing it. I want to install it manually onto a USB stick. The TAILS website doesn't have any instructions for doing this on Ubuntu, only on Linux: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/installation/manual/linux/index.en.html

I've followed the steps for Linux, but when I get to doing the actually copy, this is what my terminal shows:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dd '/home/ubuntu/Desktop/tails-i386-1.5.iso' of=/dev/sdc bs=16M && sync
dd: unrecognized operand ‘/home/ubuntu/Desktop/tails-i386-1.5.iso’
Try 'dd --help' for more information.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ 

So how do I manually install the TAILS ISO onto a USB? I'm a beginner and I've just been following step-by-step guides to get this far. Any help is appreciated!

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    – Fabby
    Aug 23, 2015 at 18:56

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You forgot the if= so using the correct syntax and sudo ;-) you get:

sudo dd if=/home/ubuntu/Desktop/tails-i386-1.5.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=16M && sync

From man dd:

if=FILE
      read from FILE instead of stdin
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  • Thank you! I now get a "permission denied" error though.
    – Aja
    Aug 23, 2015 at 17:50
  • Sorry, forgot the sudo in front
    – A.B.
    Aug 23, 2015 at 17:50
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    @Aja As you're a reputation 1 user: If this answer helped you, don't forget to click the grey at the left of the answer, which means "yes, this answer is valid"! ;-)
    – A.B.
    Aug 23, 2015 at 17:52
  • You should also provide instructions as to how to 'undo' dd as dd alone can prevent USB reusability.
    – Poriferous
    Aug 23, 2015 at 22:20

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