Re: Tails 6.19 is out

Mike Easter <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:34:54 -0700
Newsgroups alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.privacy,alt.anonymous
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stefan Claas wrote:
> How do you boot Tails, on a USB stick, in a public
> library or an Internet Café, without resetting the
> PC, so that you start it within Windows?

If you have plenty of ram, so that you can run 2 operating systems + 
other applications at the same time, you can use a VM virtual machine to 
boot the Tails, which is a linux operating system.

Personally I don't use VMs, as I prefer various other methods to boot a 
different OS.

The Tails site makes some provisions for 'installing' to Win 8 or 10, 
but not 7.  If you want to be running W7 and not reboot, you would need 
to use a VM, and Tails gives instructions for that.

https://tails.net/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/index.en.html

I just dl'd the current Tails to a Ventoy'd SSD and tried to boot it, 
but it failed; I may have to make some special Ventoy arrangements for 
Tails as I have for Puppy and EasyOS. In the meantime, if I were going 
to boot it, I would choose the USB route, which is more reliable.

-- 
Mike Easter