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First off, I am running Tails live off of a USB drive on a MacBook Retina.

Everything boots up fine, but the display resolution is way to high for my screen and everything looks so small. When I try to adjust the resolution, my screen goes black and I can't see what is going on anymore, until I restart my computer and boot back in.

I have also tried using xrandr to adjust the resolution but the screen goes black with that as well.

My next problem is trying to set up a persistent drive. I have installed Tails on my USB following their Mac USB installation guide exactly, but when I try to create a persistent drive I get this error message: Device /dev/sdb was not created using Tails installer. Could somebody help me to solve these problems?

Roya
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Did you install Tails from the first Tails USB media into the second USB media?

As of August 2018, Tails requires 2 USB media in order to end up with a secure installation. With the first USB medium you can boot a minimal Tails system which works "ok" but has several limitations and is a bit relaxed about some security settings. So from there you need to run the installer which will install the final Tails on the second USB medium.

Hope it's clear. Anyway if you read the installation guide carefully, everything is explained with excellent detail.

Hope it helps, cheers!

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