This topic is going to cover how to create a bootable Kali USB key and enable persistence.
The first half of this is relatively straight forward for Linux users. You will need to obtain an 8GB USB key rated for 3.0 speeds. You can use a 2.0 USB, but honestly I would not waste my time. A persistent USB key will be reading and writing from & to the drive and a 3.0 USB drive is the only way to go. Download the kali iso from this page: https://www.kali.org/downloads/ Obviously you will want the 64 bit unless your system is ancient. Once that .Iso file is downloaded we need to write it to the USB key. There are a couple of ways we can write this Iso file. We can use a command line method or an application. To use dd from the command line follow this link for instructions: linehttp://digitalsanctum.com/2007/01/26/how-to-make-an-iso-image-using-dd/ otherwise you may have "Usb Image Writer" built in or available to install to write the iso to the USB. That is what I use in Linux Mint. It is simple and intuitive. Ok, that is the easy part. Once the live bootable Kali USB is written, reboot and select the USB to ensure it is bootable and in good working order. That being done, boot back into your main distro and navigate to this site: https://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-persistence It is time for some terminal action. I would go ahead and open a terminal and change to root. Run fdisk -l and make sure that your USB is coming up as sdb and your main partitions are sda. IF YOU SWAP A ''B" FOR AN "A" YOU WILL ERASE A DRIVE. You should see something like /dev/sdb1 and 8G for the USB drive. That is the Drive we are modifying. Don't mess with sda. Generally you can copy and paste each line from the kali persistence site into the terminal and have it work. However, the site references "kali-linux-2016.2-amd64.iso" and I believe that has changed to "2017.1-amd64" so if you just copy and paste it will look for that iso and not find it. So you will need to modify those lines. So instead of: read start _ < <(du -bcm kali-linux-2016.2-amd64.iso | tail -1); echo $start You would change it to this in terminal: read start _ < <(du -bcm kali-linux-2017.1-amd64.iso | tail -1); echo $start Once you get down to: "Adding USB Persistence with LUKS Encryption" you should be done. Reboot and try to login with persistence. Save a text file to the desktop and reboot. If the file is still there when you reboot into persistence then you have succeeded. If you have any questions please ask. I wrote this out quickly and may have missed much. Isaac. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
