Author: sajolida Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Document that Persistence only work with Tails
Installer
intrigeri: > Alan wrote (20 Jan 2014 10:49:03 GMT) :
>>> Maybe it should also be
>>> mentioned in the *configure persistence* documentation that
>>> persistence cannot be setup on the *source/first* USB if you used the
>>> manual install method?
>
>> That seems relevant to me. What do you think?
>
> I agree this information is not made visible enough. AFAICT, it's only
> conveyed on doc/first_steps/persistence by "If you start Tails from
> a USB stick or SD card, you can create a persistent volume in the free
> space left on the device by Tails Installer". Perhaps extracting the
> bits about "the device must have been created with Tails Installer"
> into a note / warning div with special formatting would be enough.
> Want to create a ticket about this problem?
>
> OTOH, I'm no fan at all of repeating this info on
> doc/first_steps/persistence/configure. If people want to skip the
> introduction, fine with me, but then it's not my problem if they're
> lacking info and then wasting their own time later on. (Granted, it's
> front desk's problem to handle the flow of incoming "the persistent
> volume assistant tells me my device was not created with Tails
> Installer" email. However, I'd like to try documenting it better
> first, before deciding we have to repeat ourselves.)
So I tried to improve on that with commits 92aca01..c58b8dd.
