Re: Tails 6.19 is out

Mike Easter wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks a lot for the information! I doubt however that PC's in a public
library or Internet Café have plenty of RAM, to use such a set-up. Well,
I may have then to look for other alternatives, like a very small Linux
distro, which can then be hardened and used with privacy tools there.

Regards
Stefan