Installation of Kali Linux rolling edition 2016.1

Kali Linux rolling edition 2016.1 installation

Kali Linux is rebuild of Backtrack Linux, Backtrack is now called Kali to maintain completely Debian development models.
It is mostly used to protect network from attackers and penetrate testing in small to large scale organizations. More than 300 penetrating testing tools support most of the today’ s hardware devices such as Raspberry Pi, Samsung Chrome book, Galaxy Note etc&hellip

Download the page of Kali Linux

Download the page of Kali Linux at below address and grab the latest version of your system architecture.
https://www.kali.org/downloads/

After downloading the ISO image, burn it to CD/DVD drive or bootable USB stack with the installation medium.

To start installation

Boot the Kali Linux and installation medium CD/DVD or USB is to start the installation process.

To set Language

Choose the language, country location where you live to be used for the installation process, need to configure with correct key map.

To select the Keyboard layout

DHCP server from router or from our local dedicated DHCP server. If not, have to assign the IP and host. Configure the Network will be default.

Choose Configure network manually and click Continue to provide the IP address with Net-mask.

The gateway of IP address is to provide the default router. In this case leave this blank or consult your n/w administrator.

IP address is entered into the name server, if you don’ t want to use, leave this option blank. If you have local DNS server you have to place the DNS IP address as name server.

Kali as host-name is set it by default is enter for your Kali Linux installation, you choose whatever you want.

If you have domain name set the name or leave blank and continue to move forward.

Need to set a password for root user on the next screen it should be protecting your server.

If you connected the internet configure the clock to match with your location this will set automatically or manually.

Next to choose Manual Partition. It’ s time to partition our disk for installation

Next we have to choose the disk from the list and click continue to move forward the installation.

Select Yes to create new empty partition table on your selected Hard disk

To create a ‘ /boot’ partition select the free space and click continue.

To create a new partition

Enter the size ‘ 300M’

Type of the New Partition: Primary

Location of the New Partition: Beginning

Mount point of the partition: select /boot

Select Done Setting Up Partition and click Continue.

Similarly, by selecting the free space create the SWAP and the ‘ /’ root partition by following the screenshots.The swap size must be double the size of your RAM memory. (Eg: 1GB RAM needs 2GB of Swap memory)

Select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk.

Select Yes to write the changes to disk.

Wait until the installer finishes its job. It may take 5-10 minutes.

Choose Yes to configure the package manager so that a network mirror can be used for any available updates.

Go with the defaults.

Choose Yes to install the GRUB boot loader on your hard disk.

Choose /dev/sda on which GRUB will be installed.

Click Continue at the Finish the installation screen. Your system will be restarted shortly.

Choose Kali GNU/Linux.

Login to your Kali Linux with root user and password which you have set in previous steps.

Enter your Password for the root user.

Kali Desktop

Check the Kali distribution version.