sajolida wrote (21 Mar 2012 18:38:02 GMT) : > - 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
On the one hand, recent enough liveusb-creator should not need any such thing anymore (report bugs if I'm wrong)... > or when you want to definitely erase Tails from a USB stick, and use > it for something else. ... on the other hand, this is still needed. > - 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. In short: try amd64; if success, great; else try 686-pae; if success, great; else try 386; if success, great; else report a bug. For the curious ones who wonder why we gave up the autodetection feature for this iteration --> https://tails.boum.org/todo/nx_bit/ > - Language and keyboard layout > This will document how to change those settings in Tails greeter. Does this really need any documentation at all? I think any need for documentation, in this precise area, is likely to be a GUI bug, but that's maybe a bit too extreme a statement. > - Create a persistent storage > There is a graphical tool to create the persistent storage, then you > need to reboot to activate it. s/create/create and configure/ The following "Configure a persistent storage" step is automatically run after the bootstrap one. > - 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. Note: currently, unselecting a previously persistent item does *not* delete the files on the persistent storage volume. In the future, the UI may warn about it, but currently, I think the doc should. > Any comments? Anything missing? Great plans, congrats! Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | We're dreaming of something else. | Something more clandestine, something happier. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
