You might have just heard about Kali Linux without actually getting your hands on it. So, today we’re going to install Kali Linux in a proper way without causing any troubles while installing.
I have found most people get stuck at the boot loader or hard-drive selection issues, they get some kind of error so i decided to make a simple tutorial on installation. Because we haven’t done any installation tutorial about Kali Linux so far.
What we need:
- Download Latest Kali Linux
- Bootable USB or CD. Tools: (https://www.linuxliveusb.com, https://unetbootin.github.io, https://www.pendrivelinux.com.)
- Download VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
Now, How To Install Kali Linux on your Computer?
First, you need to make your USB Bootable or CD. It’s very easy you just need to plug in your USB and select your Distro and version from that tools and it will start installing that distro in your USB or CD.
After making the USB Bootable stick now you need to plug in and restart your computer after that from bios enable boot from USB or check the settings which your manufacturer has provided in BIOS.
1. To start the installation process, boot the Kali Linux with your chosen installation medium CD/DVD or USB. You should be presented with the Kali Boot screen. Select either Graphical or Text mode installation. In this example, I’m going to choose a graphical installation.
2. Choose your respective language for the installation and then your country location, this should be the location where you live. You will also need to configure your keyboard language with the correct keymap.
3. By default it will configure the Network if you have a DHCP server from the router or from our local dedicated DHCP server. If not, you have to assign the IP and hostname as follows.
Here I’m going to choose the manual configuration, select Configure network manually and click Continue to provide the IP address with Netmask in the format of IP Address/Netmask 192.168.0.155/24.
4. Next, provide the gateway IP address of the default router. If you don’t have a router, in this case you can leave this blank or consult your network administrator to configure it. Here I am using my gateway router IP address 192.168.0.1.
5. Now enter the IP address of your Name Server (DNS), if you don’t want to use any name servers, you can leave this option blank. Here in my case, I’ve local DNS, so here I am placing my DNS Server’s IP address as my name server.
6. Next, enter the hostname for your Kali Linux installation, by default it is set to Kali as the hostname, but here I’ve used the same hostname as “Kali“, but you can choose whatever you want…
7. Next, set the domain name if you have one or leave it blank and click Continue to move forward.
8. On the next screen, you need to set a password for the root user, it’s always a good practice to use a mixture of letters, numbers, and special characters in passwords and should be changed at regular intervals to protect your servers.
9. Configure the clock to match your chosen location, if you are connected to the internet this will be set automatically as per your chosen location or set manually as described below.
10. Now it’s time to partition our disk for installation. Choosing LVM will be a good option If you need to extend more space in near future. Here I have selected Guided-Use to enter the disk and setup LVM.
11. Choose the Disk from the list, here we have only one disk to choose from, click continue to move forward for the installation.
12. For simplifying our installation and easy to setup, we can choose All files in one partition. This will be recommended for new users to Kali. Advanced users, they can choose manually for a separate partition for each /home, /var, /usr, etc.
13. Before the LVM is configured, the proper partitioning scheme has to be written to disk and these changes cannot be reverted back. So, make sure to take a backup, if you have any, or choose YES to confirm the changes to the disk and configure LVM.
14. Here, you will get an overview of your current partition layout and mount points, which are configured automatically by the installer. If you wish to change any settings, you can or else select Finish partition and write changes to disk and choose to continue to move forward for the next step.
15. Partitions are created and asked to format the disk by using the below file-system types. With root and swap. Choose YES and click on Continue. This will start to copy the files from the media to disk and get install Kali Linux.
16. After copying files, you will be asked to configure the package manager. In this step, we’re going to configure the mirror network to get the packages for future installations. If you don’t have an internet connection, you can choose NO, depending on the media repo, if you choose a network mirror to YES, it will get prepared to use the available nearby repository mirror.
In some organizations they have their local mirror, in such cases, you can enter the information of your local mirror URL here, or else just click on Continue to move forward for further installation.
17. After configuring the package manager, it will download and install packages from the chosen mirror, and then choose YES to install the GRUB boot loader in our system.
18. After installation completes, click on Continue to finish installation, and make sure to remove the installation media, before rebooting the machine.
19. After rebooting the machine, you will be prompted with the Kali Linux boot menu, from the list choose Kali GNU/Linux without recovery mode to boot normally to the system.
20. After the system booting, you will get the login screen for Kali Linux, use the default username as ‘root’ and the password which you’ve set during the installation time at #step 8.
Updating Kali Linux from Older Version to the Latest
To upgrade Kali from older versions to newer ones, you can use the simple apt-get commands. We don’t have to download the ISO files and have a fresh new installation, just issue the following commands to upgrade the running system to a newer version.
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