<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"]].
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.