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>Using <span class="application">Tails Installer</span> allows you to
9 later [[create a persistent volume|persistence]] in the free space
10 left on the device.</p>
16 <p><span class="application">Tails Installer</span> can only install Tails on a
17 USB stick or SD card of <strong>at least 4 GB</strong>.</p>
21 For the moment, <span class="application">Tails Installer</span> is only
22 available from inside Tails. So you need to start Tails from a first
23 media, and later clone it onto the device of your choice, USB stick or SD card.
25 1. Get a first Tails running. To do so you can either:
27 - Start Tails from a [[Tails DVD|dvd]] (recommended).
28 - Start Tails from another Tails USB stick or SD card, for example from a
30 - [[Manually install Tails onto another USB or SD card|installation/manual]]
31 and start *Tails Installer* from it.
34 <span class="menuchoice">
35 <span class="guimenu">Applications</span> ▸
36 <span class="guisubmenu">Tails</span> ▸
37 <span class="guimenuitem">Tails Installer</span>
39 to start <span class="application">Tails Installer</span>.
41 3. To install onto a new device, click on the <span class="button">Clone &
42 Install</span> button.
44 4. Plug the device onto which you want to install Tails.
46 A new device, which corresponds to the USB stick or SD card, appears in the
47 <span class="guilabel">Target Device</span> drop-down list.
49 5. Choose this new device from the <span class="guilabel">Target Device</span>
55 <li><strong>All the data on the installed device will be
57 <li><strong>This operation does not [[securely
58 delete|encryption_and_privacy/secure_deletion]] the lost data on the
59 installed device.</strong></li>
60 <li><strong>This operation does not copy the persistent volume of the
61 device which is being cloned.</strong></li>
66 6. To start the installation, click on the <span
67 class="button">Install Tails</span> button.
69 7. Read the warning message in the pop-up window. Click on the <span
70 class="button">Yes</span> button to confirm.
74 <p>After the installation completes, you can [[start Tails|start_tails]]
75 from this new device.</p>