Tails OS installation prerequisites
As with all installations of software (OSes are software), we need to verify the installation requirements before beginning.
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For Tails, the hardware installation requirements are as follows:
- A 64-bit x86-64 compatible processor (except for PowerPC or ARM)
- 2 GB of RAMÂ
- A way to boot either from a DVD or USB flash drive
There are several ways to install and use Tails, depending on the OS of the computer on which you'll be installing Tails.
The time it takes and the complexity of the installation process is also affected by the source computer.
Tails can be installed from Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint Linux, or almost any other Linux distros. (macOS isn't really supported, but you can always install Tails as a virtual machine in macOS.)Â
Although I won't go into detail for all of the possible source OSes in this book, I will outline the general processes for most of them, and provide detailed instructions for Linux (Ubuntu).