1 [[!meta title="Installing onto a USB stick or SD card"]]
3 Tails includes <span class="application">Tails Installer</span> a custom
4 installer for USB sticks and SD cards.
8 <p><span class="application">Tails Installer</span> can only install Tails on a
9 USB stick or SD card of <strong>at least 4 GB</strong>.</p>
12 In order to use <span class="application">Tails Installer</span>, you need
13 to start Tails from another media, and clone it onto the device of your
14 choice, USB stick or SD card. To do that, you can either:
16 - **[[Burn a Tails DVD|dvd]]** (recommended).
17 - **Use another Tails USB stick or SD card**, for example from a friend.
18 - **[[Manually install Tails onto another USB
19 stick or SD card|installation/manual]]**, if you cannot use a DVD.
21 Using <span class="application">Tails Installer</span> allows you to
22 later **[[create a persistent volume|persistence]]** in the free space
31 <li><strong>All the data on the installed device will be
33 <li><strong>This operation does not [[securely
34 delete|encryption_and_privacy/secure_deletion]] the lost data on the
35 installed device.</strong></li>
36 <li><strong>This operation does not copy the persistent volume of the
37 device which is being cloned.</strong></li>
42 1. Start Tails from another media than the device, USB stick or SD card,
43 onto which you want to install Tails.
46 <span class="menuchoice">
47 <span class="guimenu">Applications</span> ▸
48 <span class="guisubmenu">Tails</span> ▸
49 <span class="guimenuitem">Tails Installer</span>
51 to start <span class="application">Tails Installer</span>.
53 3. To install onto a new device, click on the <span class="button">Clone &
54 Install</span> button.
56 4. Plug the device onto which you want to install Tails.
58 A new device, which corresponds to the USB stick or SD card, appears in the
59 <span class="guilabel">Target Device</span> drop-down list.
61 5. Choose this new device from the <span class="guilabel">Target Device</span>
64 6. To start the installation, click on the <span
65 class="button">Install Tails</span> button.
67 7. Read the warning message in the pop-up window. Click on the <span
68 class="button">Yes</span> button to confirm.
72 <p>After the installation completes, you can [[start Tails|start_tails]]
73 from this new device.</p>