so if you're going to start tails on a pc or any laptop device you have it's going to be different per the pc you have.
so depending on if you have an hp or a dell or a chromebook it might change how you can actually boot.
so let's jump over to the tails page right now.
this is their documents page.
you can find this link specifically under the 1st steps area on tails.
the 1st step start starting tails on pc.
on windows eight or ten, there is an option here to actually, if you use the shift key and hold to restart, when it restarts, you can use the usb to actually boot from.
so this is a good way to do that.
if you don't want to do that, if you want to just boot the computer, you'll need to usually hold a key on the computer to get into the boot menu.
so this is an example video here we'll watch.
and in this video you go and you restart the computer and you will usually need to hold a certain key.
it's sometimes f two, f twelve.
it's referencing a list here on the right hand side.
so if we reference the list here, this is on their website, but i'll throw it up on the screen as well.
this depends on your model of computer, what key it is to get into the boot options.
so you'll need to reference this depending on the model, the manufacturer to reference which key to press.
and once you find it, you press and hold that key after starting the computer.
and once you do that, it should get you to a boot menu and a boot menu on each computer will look a little bit different but generally you're looking for the usb or it might say the name or it might say the maker of the usb like sandisk or something like that.
you would select that to boot from and then tails should boot up from there.
if you have any questions on this or run into any issues let me know.
if it's not detecting your usb, it might be a port issue or maybe you didn't image the usb correctly or create the tails image correctly.
so go back to that video double check those steps, make sure you correctly created that bootable usb.
and that's it for this one.
we'll check out mac os booting separately from pc.
so if you have a mac check out the next video and then after that we'll start diving into tails.
thank you.