Kali Linux is completely a rebuild of Backtrack Linux, Backtrack named as Kali now, maintain completely to Debian development models.
Kali Linux is totally free of cost, and mostly used for penetrating testing in any small to large scale organizations to protect their network from attackers. It contains more than 300 penetrating testing tools and supports most of the today’s hardware and devices such as Raspberry Pi, Samsung Chromebook, Galaxy Note etc..
Under 2 years of public development, on 9th Feburary 2015, Mati Aharoni has announced the first point release of Kali Linux 1.1.0, which brings mix of extraordinary hardware support as well as rock solid performance.
Installing
Kali Linux on your computer is pretty simple and very easy process, all
you need is a compatible computer hardware. The hardware Prerequisites
are very minimal as listed below.
2. After downloading, either burn the downloaded ISO image to CD/DVD drive, or prepare a USB bootable stick with Kali Linux Live as the installation medium. If you don’t know how to make an USB as bootable stick, read the article that shows how to install Linux from USB.
3. 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 graphical installation.
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4. Choose your respective language for the installation and then your country location, this should be location were you live. You will also need to configure your keyboard language with correct keymap.
5. By default it will configure the Network, if you have a DHCP server from router or from our local dedicated DHCP server. If not, you have to assign the IP and host name as follows.
Here I’m going to choose 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.
6. 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.
7. 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 has blank. Here in my case, I’ve local DNS, so here I am placing my DNS Server’s IP address as my name server.
8. Next, enter the hostname for your Kali Linux installation, by default it set to Kali as hostname, but here I’ve used the same hostname as “Kali“, but you can choose whatever you want…
9. Next, set the domain name if you have one or leave blank and click Continue to move forward.
10. On the next screen, you need to set a password for root user, it’s always a good practice to use mixture of letters, numbers and special characters in passwords and should be changed on regular intervals to protect your servers.
Kali Linux is totally free of cost, and mostly used for penetrating testing in any small to large scale organizations to protect their network from attackers. It contains more than 300 penetrating testing tools and supports most of the today’s hardware and devices such as Raspberry Pi, Samsung Chromebook, Galaxy Note etc..
Under 2 years of public development, on 9th Feburary 2015, Mati Aharoni has announced the first point release of Kali Linux 1.1.0, which brings mix of extraordinary hardware support as well as rock solid performance.
What’s new in Kali 1.1.0
- Kali Linux 1.1.0 runs on Kernel 3.18, patched for wireless injection attacks.
- Improved Wireless driver support for both kernel and firmware upgrade for Wireless devices.
- Support for NVIDIA Optimus hardware.
- Updated packages and instructions for virtual-box tool, vmware-tools and openvm tools.
- Grub Screen and wallpapers were changed in Kali 1.1.0.
- Almost 58 bug fixes are fixed in current release.
Installation Prerequisites
- Kali Linux required a minimum of 10 GB hard disk space for installation.
- A minimum of 512MB Ram for i386 and amd64 architectures.
- A bootable CD-DVD Drive or a USB stick.
My Environment Setup
IP Address : 192.168.0.155 Hostname : kali.tecmintlocal.com HDD Size : 27 GB RAM : 4 GB
Installing Kali Linux 1.1.0
1. First go the download page of Kali Linux at below address and grab the latest version of Kali Linux ISO file for your system architecture.2. After downloading, either burn the downloaded ISO image to CD/DVD drive, or prepare a USB bootable stick with Kali Linux Live as the installation medium. If you don’t know how to make an USB as bootable stick, read the article that shows how to install Linux from USB.
3. 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 graphical installation.
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4. Choose your respective language for the installation and then your country location, this should be location were you live. You will also need to configure your keyboard language with correct keymap.
5. By default it will configure the Network, if you have a DHCP server from router or from our local dedicated DHCP server. If not, you have to assign the IP and host name as follows.
Here I’m going to choose 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.
6. 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.
7. 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 has blank. Here in my case, I’ve local DNS, so here I am placing my DNS Server’s IP address as my name server.
8. Next, enter the hostname for your Kali Linux installation, by default it set to Kali as hostname, but here I’ve used the same hostname as “Kali“, but you can choose whatever you want…
9. Next, set the domain name if you have one or leave blank and click Continue to move forward.
10. On the next screen, you need to set a password for root user, it’s always a good practice to use mixture of letters, numbers and special characters in passwords and should be changed on regular intervals to protect your servers.
Set root Password for Kali Linux.
11. Configure the clock to match with the your
chosen location, if you connected to internet this will set
automatically as per your chosen location or set manually as described
below.
12. Now it’s time to partition our disk for installation. Choosing LVM will be good option, If you need to extend more space in near future. Here i have selected Guided-Use enter disk and setup LVM.
13. Choose the Disk from the list, here we have only one disk to choose, click continue to move forward for the installation.
14. 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. For advance user’s they can choose manually for separate partition for each /home, /var, /usr, etc.
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Before the LVM configured, the proper partitioning scheme has to be
written to disk and these changes cannot be reverted back. So, make sure
to take backup, if you have any or choose YES to confirm the changes to the disk and configure LVM.
16. Here, you will get a overview of your current partition layout and mount points, which configured automatically from the installer. If you wish to change any settings, you can or else select Finish partition and write changes to disk and choose continue to move forward for the next step.
17. Partitions are created and asking to format the disk by using below file-system types. With root and swap. Choose YES and click on Continue. This will start to copy the files from media to disk and get install Kali Linux.
18. After copying files, you will be asked to configuring package manager. In this step, we’re going to configure the mirror network to get the packages for the future installations. If you don’t have a internet connection, you can choose NO, to depend on 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 there local mirror, in such case, you can enter the information of your local mirror URL here, or else just click on Continue to move forward for the further installation.
19. After configuring package manager, it will download and install packages from chosen mirror, and then choose YES to install the GRUB boot loader in our system.
20. After installation completes, click on Continue to finish installation, and make sure to remove the installation media, before rebooting the machine.
21. After rebooting machine, you will be prompted with Kali Linux boot menu, from the list choose Kali GNU/Linux without recovery mode to boot normally to system.
22. After system booting, you will get the login screen for KALI Linux 1.1.0, use the default username as ‘root’ and password which you’ve set during the installation time at #step 10.
That’s it we’ve successfully installed Kali Linux 1.1.0 and your system is ready to customize as per your requirements.
12. Now it’s time to partition our disk for installation. Choosing LVM will be good option, If you need to extend more space in near future. Here i have selected Guided-Use enter disk and setup LVM.
13. Choose the Disk from the list, here we have only one disk to choose, click continue to move forward for the installation.
14. 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. For advance user’s they can choose manually for separate partition for each /home, /var, /usr, etc.
16. Here, you will get a overview of your current partition layout and mount points, which configured automatically from the installer. If you wish to change any settings, you can or else select Finish partition and write changes to disk and choose continue to move forward for the next step.
17. Partitions are created and asking to format the disk by using below file-system types. With root and swap. Choose YES and click on Continue. This will start to copy the files from media to disk and get install Kali Linux.
18. After copying files, you will be asked to configuring package manager. In this step, we’re going to configure the mirror network to get the packages for the future installations. If you don’t have a internet connection, you can choose NO, to depend on 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 there local mirror, in such case, you can enter the information of your local mirror URL here, or else just click on Continue to move forward for the further installation.
19. After configuring package manager, it will download and install packages from chosen mirror, and then choose YES to install the GRUB boot loader in our system.
20. After installation completes, click on Continue to finish installation, and make sure to remove the installation media, before rebooting the machine.
21. After rebooting machine, you will be prompted with Kali Linux boot menu, from the list choose Kali GNU/Linux without recovery mode to boot normally to system.
22. After system booting, you will get the login screen for KALI Linux 1.1.0, use the default username as ‘root’ and password which you’ve set during the installation time at #step 10.
That’s it we’ve successfully installed Kali Linux 1.1.0 and your system is ready to customize as per your requirements.
Updating Kali Linux from Older Version to 1.1.0
To upgrade Kali from older versions to newer 1.1.0, 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 into newer version.# sudo apt-get update # sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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