Hi everybody, As you can see, we're actively working on preparing the upcoming Tails 0.11. It will include tons of exciting, and long expected features: - a graphical startup interface for changing many options - a graphical installer for USB sticks - a tool to setup a persistent storage on the extra space of the stick
Our plan is to have all those features documented in time for the release, and have them shipped in the ISO, and linked from the release notes. I will also try to coordinate with the translators team, and see if we can have all this translated in time for the release as well! Here is a brief draft of what that will include. Each bullet point corresponds to a decicated page in the "First steps with Tails" section of the documentation. - Installing onto a USB stick This is the recommended method: cloning a Tails 0.11 onto another USB stick using Tails USB installer. This page will also document how to get a Tails 0.11 running to be able to use the installer in the first place: burn a CD, clone from a friend, or install manually. - Manually installing onto a USB stick, for Linux - Manually installing onto a USB stick, for Windows Those pages will rescue the current instructions for Linux and Windows. It won't be the recommended method, and it doesn't allow to setup a persistent storage but it might be useful to get a first running Tails 0.11 from which to use the installer. - Resetting a USB stick, for Linux - Resetting a USB stick, for Windows This will document how to reset a USB stick to a good-old MBR + FAT32 partition table. That's sometimes required when the USB installer doesn't manage to overwrite a manually install USB sticks or when you want to definitely erase Tails from a USB stick, and use it for something else. - Upgrading to a newer version (later?) There are two other options in the Tails USB installer which are "Clone & Upgrade" and "Upgrade from ISO". Those could be written already if we have time, or wait until 0.11.1 since people are unlikely to upgrade before that. - Startup options Tails 0.11 will introduce the Tails greeter: a new set of startup screens which proposes the user many more options than before. The traditional syslinux screen will be changed as well. The language settings will be moved in Tails greeter, but the other boot options (toram, windows camouflage, bridge) will stay there for the moment. - Selecting an architecture The syslinux screen will now show a list of processor architectures to choose from 386, 686-pae, amd64 and failsafe. Explain what this is all about. - Language and keyboard layout This will document how to change those settings in Tails greeter. - Set an administration password The Tails greeter will also allow the user to choose an administration password. Otherwise it will be disabled and you won't be able to `sudo`. - Use a persistent storage After installing Tails with the USB installer it's now possible to use the extra space on the stick to store stuff. This intro page will explain the general vision of that feature: encrypted volume, opt-in options, etc. - Create a persistent storage There is a graphical tool to create the persistent storage, then you need to reboot to activate it. - Configure a persistent storage There is a graphical tool to select what you want to store in the persistent storage (files, OpenPGP keys, Pidgin profiles, etc.). This page will document the various options. - Startup with persistence You will have to explicit open the persistence storage in Tails greeter. - Delete a persistent storage How to delete a persistent storage, and what it implies. Some other pages will have to be partly rewritten: - Download Review the "Burn a CD or install onto a USB stick" section. - Booting Tails in Bridge Mode - Booting Tails with Windows Camouflage Rename, and move under the "Startup options" section, and include up-to-date screenshots. Any comments? Anything missing? -- sajolida
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