Feature #8560

Study feasibility of porting Tails Installer to OS X

Added by intrigeri 2015-01-06 14:04:28 . Updated 2018-02-06 15:59:14 .

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Installation
Target version:
Start date:
2015-01-06
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Research
Blueprint:

https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/Port_Tails_Installer_to_OS_X/

Starter:
Affected tool:
Installer
Deliverable for:

Description

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #8558: Study feasibility of porting Tails Installer to Windows Resolved 2015-06-22
Related to Tails - Feature #8802: Investigate graphical tools for manual installation on Mac Resolved 2015-02-04
Related to Tails - Bug #11668: Install on Mac: test Entreprise Rejected 2016-08-19

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2015-01-06 14:04:41

  • related to Feature #8558: Study feasibility of porting Tails Installer to Windows added

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2015-01-06 14:04:51

  • blocks #8538 added

#3 Updated by sajolida 2015-01-30 09:12:15

  • related to Feature #8802: Investigate graphical tools for manual installation on Mac added

#4 Updated by sajolida 2015-01-30 09:18:15

While working on Feature #8583, we got quite worried about the bootstrapping process for Mac. USB installation is currently only possible through the command line, and DVD drives are disappearing from recent Mac. So the situation for Mac is quite bad.

Would it be possible to do that feasibility study (maybe partly) quite early in 2015? Because if we realize that porting to Mac is easier than porting to Windows or easier that we thought we might want to move faster on this. I understand that we might need to recruit external people to do the implementation work…

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2015-01-30 14:17:45

> While working on Feature #8583, we got quite worried about the bootstrapping process for Mac.
> USB installation is currently only possible through the command line, and DVD drives
> are disappearing from recent Mac. So the situation for Mac is quite bad.

I’ve been told that diskutil (sic?) on OSX allows one to do the same thing as dd, but in a GUI. Once we ship a hybrid ISO, this means the bootstrap can be done without the command line, and in turn this very ticket becomes not so much of an emergency as it currently seems to be.

#6 Updated by sajolida 2015-02-02 21:08:05

Right, if we can use Disk Utility, then this becomes as urgent as the port to Windows.

#7 Updated by sajolida 2015-12-18 13:19:37

  • Target version set to Tails_2.0

#8 Updated by intrigeri 2016-01-05 23:56:28

https://github.com/twstrike/gtk-mac-bundler might be useful for this (or not).

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2016-02-18 20:47:29

  • Target version changed from Tails_2.0 to Tails_2.2

(Tails 2.0 was released and I’d like to close the corresponding target version in Redmine accordingly.)

#10 Updated by intrigeri 2016-02-28 12:23:57

  • Blueprint set to https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/Port_Tails_Installer_to_OS_X/

#11 Updated by sajolida 2016-03-18 17:52:54

  • Assignee deleted ()
  • Target version deleted (Tails_2.2)

This was reported as a failure, so deassigning from you to clean your plate. You can relax now :)

#12 Updated by sajolida 2016-03-18 17:53:28

  • blocked by deleted (#8538)

#13 Updated by elouann 2016-08-19 07:36:21

  • related to Bug #11668: Install on Mac: test Entreprise added

#14 Updated by intrigeri 2018-02-06 15:59:14

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected

The output of Feature #11679 is that we’ll instead work on Feature #15292.