{"id":85,"date":"2017-12-14T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkleet.net\/?p=85"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:47:58","slug":"tails-installer-errors-on-wipefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/tails-installer-errors-on-wipefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tails installer errors on wipefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I decided to install Tails to a flash drive\u00a0 that was not being used.\u00a0 While I have my system set to dual boot between Xenial and Windows 7, it is unusual for the Windows system to launch at all, unless I&#8217;m in the mood to stream Steam games over moonlight.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The choices offered at the Tails <a href=\"https:\/\/tails.boum.org\/\">website <\/a>are to install from another Tails installation, or install straight from Ubuntu.\u00a0\u00a0 Since I was using Tails for the first time in about 3 years, I chose to go straight from Ubuntu.\u00a0 This involved following the steps provided on the Tails website, with one small addition.\u00a0 Every time I tried to install, wipefs failed, and I was unable to figure out why, until the Eureka moment struck.\u00a0 My usb drive is set to automount on insert, and it was mounted.<\/p>\n<p>The solution was simple.\u00a0 Unmount the drive and then run the installer.\u00a0 While it was a simple solution, it might be beneficial to include a warning that tails-installer will not work if the drive you are installing to is already mounted.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve run dd multiple times with mounted disks and never experience this issue.\u00a0 Hopefully my simple solution will help you with keeping your private life private, and making life easier for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I decided to install Tails to a flash drive\u00a0 that was not being used.\u00a0 While I have my system set to dual boot between Xenial and Windows 7, it is unusual for the Windows system to launch at all, unless I&#8217;m in the mood to stream Steam games over moonlight.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The choices offered at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/tails-installer-errors-on-wipefs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tails installer errors on wipefs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkleet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}