USB install and upgrade
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Roadmap
We have released something useful in Tails 0.11, based on the work we’ve already done on the basis of Fedora liveusb-creator.
Next steps are:
Bugfixes and minor improvements of liveusb-creator
- Remove devices from the list when unplugged.
- Set cursor to waiting (hourglass) state while working.
- Target Device list: display more information, such as the stick brand and model.
- Allow setting the system/overlay partitions size via command-line option(s).
- command-line option —local-hard-disks that would enable installation
on local hard disks (= not external USB); is half-implemented by
--force
, see special casing in the detect_removable_devices method. - Should be more explicit when no target device is available: currently displays an empty list, no message, is not that easy to understand.
Other tasks
Other bugs
Incremental upgrades
See the dedicated page about incremental upgrades (#5919 (closed)).
Choose again
Implement our specifications in (probably) Ubuntu’s usb-creator, that has a much saner codebase.
This should also open the possibility to take care of, at least, verified downloads and Windows support.
Resources
- notes about GPT (#6123)
- the code: our work on liveusb-creator is in a dedicated Git
repository. Integration
work is made in the
feature/usb_installer
branch in the main Tails Git repository. - USB installation specification and design
- archived roundup of existing tools (#6122)
Original created by @tails on 5820 (Redmine)