One other interesting note. But this hasn't been entirely removed from the installer dialog, because if your system has a wireless network adapter which requires non-free firmware such as the Intel wireless adapters , the installer will ask you if you want to install them from a separate medium, but if you simply say no, when the installation completes the drivers will be installed and wireless networking will be working. One very significant change that Kali made not long ago was to stop using the root login with a well-known default password hooray!
Also, Kali recently changed to using the zsh command interpreter by default, rather than bash. Long-time Linux and Unix users like me might find this disconcerting at first, and of course if you know enough for it to bother you, then you certainly know enough to change it back bash is also included in the base installation , but give zsh a chance and you will probably like it — or at least not be disturbed by it. As one of my students once said to me, "It's time to join the 21st century".
If you use the NetInstaller, when the installation is complete your system will be up to date because it installs from the latest packages in the Kali repository. If you use the stand-alone Installer, when you boot the installed system you will need to install the latest updates. The command that I use to get everything done at once is:. This simply combines the three necessary commands update the package list, install all upgrades and remove unused packages in a single command line, which makes it easy to repeat from the command history list when necessary.
When you boot this image, there are a number of boot options:. The "forensic mode" boot is basically a normal "Live System" boot with just a couple of significant changes related to the way that it uses disk drives. First, it never touches any disk drive other than the USB stick in any way. That means it doesn't auto-mount any partition of an internal drive, and if there is a swap partition on the internal drive it is not used.
The idea here is that you don't have to worry about accidentally modifying or corrupting the drive, and you don't have to worry about anything from the internal drive modifying, infiltrating or otherwise affecting the operation of your Kali Live operation. Second, auto-mounting of all removable media is disabled. Again, the idea is the same — nothing gets mounted, modified, or accessed in any way unless you, the user, specifically command it.
Forensic mode has a long history with Kali and BackTrack Linux , and I know that a lot of cybersecurity professionals always boot this mode. The "persistence" options are useful if you plan to work from the USB stick repeatedly, as it allows you to store information that will not be lost when you reboot.
Even though this option is included in the standard boot list, this does not "just work" after you have created the Live USB stick. If you do nothing else and then just boot persistence mode, what you will get is actually just the normal Live boot, with no extra features, no persistent storage of files, and no error messages telling you that you aren't getting what you probably expected.
This will walk you through creating, formatting and labeling another partition on the USB stick, and configuring it so that it is overlaid on the Live filesystem. This process can be a bit confusing, especially if you aren't familiar with dealing with ISO filesystems.
But some Linux tools, most notably the gparted utility, don't understand this and they simply show the entire device as one large ISO block which you can't modify or add to in any way. The Linux utilities used in the Adding Persistence instructions are able to read and modify the USB stick, as shown here.
One other tip — in the parted command to create the persistence partition, the end value that you give is where the actual end of the new partition will be on the disk, not the size of the new partition.
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