### You will need

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#### Your Tails

[[!img install/inc/icons/1-usb.png link="no"]]

#### 1 other Tails
DVD or USB

[[!img install/inc/icons/2-usb.png link="no" alt=""]]

#### 2 USB sticks
4 GB minimum
All data will be lost!
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[[!img install/inc/icons/1-usb.png link="no" alt=""]]

#### 1 USB stick
4 GB minimum
All data will be lost!

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#### 1 USB stick
4 GB minimum
All data will be lost!
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[[!img install/inc/icons/1-dvd.png link="no" alt=""]]

#### 1 DVD
All data will be lost!

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#### 2 hours 1½ hour ½ hour ¼ hour
[[!inline pages="inc/stable_i386_iso_size" raw="yes"]] to download
1 hour to install ½ hour to install ½ hour to upgrade

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#### a smartphone
another computer,
or a printer
to follow the instructions

### Your steps

1. #### First you will install an intermediary Tails on the first USB stick. burn an intermediary Tails on a DVD. install a Tails on your USB stick. restart on the other Tails. install and upgrade an intermediary Tails.

   [[!img install/inc/infography/download-and-verify.png link="no" alt="ISO image downloaded and verified"]]

   ##### Download

   [[!img install/inc/infography/restart-on-intermediary-tails.png link="no" alt="Computer restarted on USB stick on the left"]]

   ##### Restart

   [[!img install/inc/infography/install-intermediary-tails.png link="no" alt="ISO image installed on USB stick on the left"]]

   ##### Install

   [[!img install/inc/infography/install-upgrade-usb.png link="no" alt="Tails installed on USB stick on the left"]]

   ##### Install

   [[!img install/inc/infography/insert-dvd.png link="no" alt="DVD inserted"]]

   ##### Install

   [[!img install/inc/infography/upgrade-upgrade-usb.png link="no" alt="ISO image installed on USB stick on the left"]]

   ##### Upgrade

   [[!img install/inc/infography/restart.png link="no" alt=""]]

   ##### Restart

2. #### Then you will install the final Tails on the second USB stick. install the final Tails on your USB stick. install Tails on your USB stick. configure it. upgrade your Tails.

   [[!img install/inc/infography/restart.png link="no" alt=""]]

   ##### Restart

   [[!img install/inc/infography/clone-intermediary-tails.png link="no" alt="Tails installed on USB stick on the right"]]

   ##### Install Upgrade

   [[!img install/inc/infography/clone-dvd.png link="no" alt="Tails installed on USB stick on the right"]]

   ##### Install

   [[!img install/inc/infography/restart.png link="no" alt=""]]

   ##### Restart

   [[!img install/inc/infography/create-persistence.png link="no" alt="Encryption configured on USB stick on the right"]]

   ##### Configure

   [[!img install/inc/infography/restart.png link="no" alt=""]]

   ##### Restart