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Nomen Nescio wrote:

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How do you boot Tails, on a USB stick, in a public
library or an Internet Caf|-, without resetting the
PC, so that you start it within Windows?

Regards
Stefan
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Stefan Claas wrote:

How do you boot Tails, on a USB stick, in a public
library or an Internet Caf|-, without resetting the
PC, so that you start it within Windows?

If you have plenty of ram, so that you can run 2 operating systems +
other applications at the same time, you can use a VM virtual machine to
boot the Tails, which is a linux operating system.

Personally I don't use VMs, as I prefer various other methods to boot a different OS.

The Tails site makes some provisions for 'installing' to Win 8 or 10,
but not 7. If you want to be running W7 and not reboot, you would need
to use a VM, and Tails gives instructions for that.

https://tails.net/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/index.en.html

I just dl'd the current Tails to a Ventoy'd SSD and tried to boot it,
but it failed; I may have to make some special Ventoy arrangements for
Tails as I have for Puppy and EasyOS. In the meantime, if I were going
to boot it, I would choose the USB route, which is more reliable.
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Mike Easter wrote:

Stefan Claas wrote:

How do you boot Tails, on a USB stick, in a public
library or an Internet Caf|-, without resetting the
PC, so that you start it within Windows?

If you have plenty of ram, so that you can run 2 operating systems +
other applications at the same time, you can use a VM virtual machine to
boot the Tails, which is a linux operating system.

Personally I don't use VMs, as I prefer various other methods to boot a different OS.

The Tails site makes some provisions for 'installing' to Win 8 or 10,
but not 7. If you want to be running W7 and not reboot, you would need
to use a VM, and Tails gives instructions for that.

https://tails.net/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/index.en.html

I just dl'd the current Tails to a Ventoy'd SSD and tried to boot it,
but it failed; I may have to make some special Ventoy arrangements for
Tails as I have for Puppy and EasyOS. In the meantime, if I were going
to boot it, I would choose the USB route, which is more reliable.

Thanks a lot for the information! I doubt however that PC's in a public
library or Internet Caf|- have plenty of RAM, to use such a set-up. Well,
I may have then to look for other alternatives, like a very small Linux
distro, which can then be hardened and used with privacy tools there.

Regards
Stefan
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Mike Easter wrote:

In the meantime, if I were going to boot it, I would choose the USB
route, which is more reliable.

I dl/d the Tails, verified it w/ their browser tool, wrote it to a USB
w/ linux Disks (=gnome-disk-utility) which was suggested at the Tails
site, and booted it on the same hardware that the Ventoy SSD Tails
failed. That worked fine.

Stefan Claas wrote:

I doubt however that PC's in a public library or Internet Caf|- have
plenty of RAM, to use such a set-up.

OIC what/where you are at. I don't have any experience using a device
in a lib'y or cafe, but when I used to shop at a big hardware
storefront, they would have demo PCs setup, and I would want to know
about the hardware's compatibility w/ linux, so I would take a USB stick
in to boot a live linux.

But, I can't predict if the lib'y or cafe would disable such a 'trick'.
If it were 'my' lib'y or cafe, I would. :-)
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Stefan Claas wrote:

SNIP

Well, I may have then to look for other alternatives,
like a very small Linux > distro, which can then be
hardened and used with privacy tools there.

Puppy Linux https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/

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Nomen Nescio wrote:

Stefan Claas wrote:

SNIP

Well, I may have then to look for other alternatives,
like a very small Linux > distro, which can then be
hardened and used with privacy tools there.

Puppy Linux https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/

Thank you.

Regards
Stefan
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Mike Easter wrote:

Stefan Claas wrote:

I doubt however that PC's in a public library or Internet Caf|- have
plenty of RAM, to use such a set-up.

OIC what/where you are at. I don't have any experience using a device
in a lib'y or cafe, but when I used to shop at a big hardware
storefront, they would have demo PCs setup, and I would want to know
about the hardware's compatibility w/ linux, so I would take a USB stick
in to boot a live linux.

I like to use it for mobility, when not carrying a notebook with me and
only have my Kanguru Defender 3000 USB stick with me.

But, I can't predict if the lib'y or cafe would disable such a 'trick'.
If it were 'my' lib'y or cafe, I would. :-)

Probably. ;-)

Regards
Stefan

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