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<p>If you are not sure about the device, stop proceeding.</p>
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<p>You might overwrite any hard disk on the computer.</p>
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<p class="command-template">sudo dd if=<span class="command-placeholder">tails.img</span> of=<span class="command-placeholder">device</span> bs=16M oflag=direct status=progress</p>
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Execute the following commands to copy the USB image that you downloaded earlier to the USB stick. Replace:
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Import the Tails signing key in your *GnuPG* keyring:
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<p>Some data might still be recovered using advanced forensics tools.</p>
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<p>All the data on this USB stick will be lost.</p>
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<div class="caution">
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<p class="command">wget --continue [[!inline pages="inc/stable_amd64_img_url" raw="yes" sort="age"]]</p>
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<p>If you get a <code>Permission denied</code> error, try
adding <code>sudo</code> at the beginning of the command:</p>
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<div class="note">
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<p class="command-template">dd if=/home/user/tails-amd64-3.12.img of=/dev/sdb bs=16M oflag=direct status=progress</p>
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<p class="command-template">dd if=<span class="command-placeholder">tails.img</span> of=<span class="command-placeholder">device</span> bs=16M oflag=direct status=progress</p>
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In this example, the device name of the USB stick is
`/dev/sdb`. Yours might be different.
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/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
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dev/sda
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<p class="command">ls -1 /dev/sd?</p>
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<h1 id="install" class="step">Install Tails using <code>dd</code></h1>
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The signature is marked as `Good signature` since you certified the Tails signing key with your own key.
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