<h1 id="etcher" class="step">Install <em>balenaEtcher</em></h1>

<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>

<p class="upgrade">In the following steps, you will install an intermediary Tails using the Tails USB
image that you downloaded earlier.</p>

[[!toggleable id="dd" text="""

[[!toggle id="dd" text="""<span class="hide-button"></span>"""]]

Make sure that your USB stick is unplugged.

<p class="command">diskutil list</p>

It returns a list of the storage devices on the system. For example:

/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

Your USB stick appears as a new device in the list. Check
that its size corresponds to the size of your USB stick.

/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *8.0 GB disk1
1: Apple_HFS Untitled 1 8.0 GB disk1s1

<div class="caution">
<p>If you are unsure about the device name, you should stop proceeding or
<strong>you risk overwriting any hard disk on the system</strong>.</p>
</div>

<p class="command-template">diskutil unmountDisk <span class="command-placeholder">device</span></p>

Execute the following commands to copy the USB image that you downloaded earlier to the USB stick.

Replace:

<span class="command-placeholder">tails.img</span> with the path to the USB image

<div class="tip">
<p>If you are unsure about the path to the USB image, you can insert the
correct path by dragging and dropping the icon of the USB image from
<span class="application">Finder</span> onto <span class="application">
Terminal</span>.</p>
</div>

<span class="command-placeholder">device</span> with the device name found in step 6

<div class="tip">
<p>You can try adding <code>r</code> before <code>disk</code> to make the installation faster.</p>
</div>

<p class="command-template">dd if=<span class="command-placeholder">tails.img</span> of=<span class="command-placeholder">device</span> bs=16m && sync</p>