Re: [Tails News] Tails 7.9.1

Ch1ffr3punk <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jul 2026 19:49:38 -0000
Newsgroups alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.privacy,alt.anonymous
Organization Victor Usenet Postings
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Gabx wrote:
> Nike wrote:
> > Can you do me a favor and test Mixfit[1], the brand new YAMN GUI client,
> > under Tails, when setting the port in the config menu to 9050 instead
> > of 1080? I ask because I currently have no Tails installation, because
> > Windows 11 complained with a red alert box, that this is not valid to
> > boot, so to speak. So far it works fine with Tor or NymVPN under Android
> > with PlugOS.
> > 
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> the boot issue is worth fixing, it's almost certainly not a Tails
> problem, but how the image was written to USB.
> 
> Tails ships a .img, meant to be written raw/byte-for-byte to the stick,
> not mounted or burned as an ISO.
> 
> If you used Rufus in "ISO Image mode" instead of "DD Image mode," it
> rebuilds the partition table incorrectly and produces exactly the kind
> of "not a valid boot device" red screen you're seeing.

Hi Gabx,

I had a working installion from them installed, but no worries
as I use NymVPN on PlugOS and therefore no longer need Tails.

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