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<h1 id="etcher" class="step">Install <em>balenaEtcher</em></h1>
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<div class="step-image usb">[[!img inc/infography/install-etcher.png link="no" alt=""]]</div>
<div class="step-image upgrade">[[!img inc/infography/install-etcher-with-intermediary.png link="no" alt=""]]</div>
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<p class="upgrade">In the following steps, you will install an intermediary Tails using the Tails USB
image that you downloaded earlier.</p>
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<p><a href="https://etcher.balena.io/"><i>balenaEtcher</i></a> is the Free Software tool that we recommend to install Tails on USB sticks.</p>
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Instead of installusing <span class="application">balenaEtcher</span>, you can
also [[!toggle id="dd" text="install Tails using `dd` on the command
line"]].
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Instead of using <span class="application">balenaEtcher</span>, you can
also [[!toggle id="dd" text="install Tails using `dd` on the command
line"]].
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Make sure that your USB stick is unplugged.
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Open the **Terminal** utility from **Applications**&nbsp;▸ **Utilities**.
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Execute the following command:.
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Execute the following command.
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<p class="command">diskutil list</p>
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It returns a list of the storage devices on the system. For example:
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/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS MacDrive 250.0 GB disk0s2
3: EFI 134.1 GB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 115.5 GB disk0s4
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Plug your USB stick into the computer.
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Plug your USB stick into the computer.
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Execute again the same command:.
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Execute again the same command.
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Your USB stick appears as a new device in the list. Check
that its size corresponds to the size of your USB stick.
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/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *8.0 GB disk1
1: Apple_HFS Untitled 1 8.0 GB disk1s1
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Take note of the device name of your USB stick.
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Take note of the *device name* of your USB stick. In this example, the USB stick is 8.0 GB and its device name is <span class="codemmand-placeholder">/dev/disk1</span>.
 Yours might be different.
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In this example, the USB stick is 8.0 GB and its device name is <span class="command-placeholder">/dev/disk1</span>.
Yours might be different.
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