okay, in this video, we're going to teach you how to create a tails usb using linux.
so we want to utilize ubuntu in this video.
that's going to be the standard linux we use.
if you use a different linux, like an arch linux or something like that, you're going to probably need to find a different guide on that.
we're going to keep it pretty basic with the linux install we're using and use one of the more popular versions of linux, which is ubuntu workstation.
so let's hop on over to our ubuntu workstation desktop and we'll take a look at how to do it.
okay, so here on our ubuntu desktop, we're going to do some similar steps like we've done before.
we'll open up a simple web browser and we're going to go to the tails website to actually download the image file we'll need to create that bootable usb.
so we'll do that in a new tab here.
we'll just look for tails.
it's tails dot net to actually download the tails usb.
so we'll go to install tails.
we'll click on this right here, download tails only for usb sticks, and we'll actually download the image file right here.
you can download the torrent version of the image file, which might be a little bit faster of a download, but we'll just do the normal download for the purposes of this video.
we'll give that a 2nd to download and we'll come back once it's complete.
okay, and now that that download has completed, there is an additional step here we'd like to do, which is to make sure our download is verifying.
so we'll click on that, we'll go to our downloads and look for the tails image.
there's some other stuff in here from other videos we've made, but we'll click on the dot image file.
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click on the dot image file, and we'll go ahead and select that.
and what it's going to do is actually take a version of the hash of the download, and it's going to compare it with what's on the tail server side to ensure that your download was not tampered with during the download process.
so it ensures that when you go to create this usb with tails, that the integrity is still good and that the file is as expected, meaning your tails is secure and proper and secure.
so we'll let that verify and then we'll come back once that is completed.
and once that verification is complete, assuming everything is good, it will say verification successful, meaning that your download is good to go.
so now we want to create the bootable usb and in order to do that, we're just going to use the disk utility that exists within linux.
and once you're on this screen, what you want to do is actually plug in your usb device.
and we'll actually be using the hard disk to display this because there's the bug in my current linux that i'm not going to work through right now.
so instead, what you'll do is the usb drive should appear here.
you go ahead and click on it.
when you do, click on the three dots and say restore disk image.
and then we will select the tails image.
we'll open that.
and then you click start restoring.
so be aware this will erase what you're doing.
so double check that it won't erase anything important.
in this case, i'm not going to actually do it because i'm selecting the hard disk.
so that would just erase my os install i have on here.
but that's really it.
once it's complete and ran, you'll be ready to go with your usb.
if you have any questions, let me know.
otherwise, we'll see you in the next one.