Describe how to manually upgrade Tails with only one USB stick
Due to personal issues unrelated to Tails, I recently had to manually upgrade Tails, but I lacked the second USB stick recommended by the documentation. Fortunately, I was able to accomplish it with only one USB drive. I then chose to share what I learned here since, in my opinion, both methods should be documented because some people might not have extra USB sticks but might have extra RAM.
- Start Tails with the
toram
kernel option. - Comply with the first two instructions provided in the documentation.
- Instead of using the secondary USB stick (which you don't have in this example), restore the image to your original USB stick.
This approach will function since the toram
option loads the entire operating system into RAM.