How to Download Kali

To download kali it does not take so long time.

To download you will need: A USB-stick and a computer to install kali on.

Step one:

Download kali: https://www.kali.org/downloads/ This will probably take some time. You can go on to the next step while you are waiting on the downloading files.

Step two:

Download a program to boot your USB we would personally recommend PowerISO at: https://www.poweriso.com/download.php but any program for booting a USB will do. If you are not using PowerISO you can skip the steps on how to boot a USB with PowerISO.

Using PowerISO:

1. Start the program and press on "Tools"

and choose "Create bootable USB drive..." as shown in the picture:

2. Click on the map icon and choose the kali file you have downloaded which should be called "kali-linux-2020.1" or something like that. Then you can choose the USB on the second box. (You need to have plugged in the USB in the computer or else do and close and reopen PowerISO) Then press "Start" and you will have a bootable USB with kali on it.

Step three:

Plugg in the USB to the computer you want to boot. If it is running reboot it else start the computer. Then repeatedly press "f2" until you see a screen with options. When it says boot options click enter when marked over it. Go to the heading "booting" or something alike. Enable the USB boot and restart the computer.

Step four:

If you want to make a dual boot (be able to connect to two different operating systems at the same computer) Follow the steps below. If you want to make a dual boot else skip step 10-14 and on the choice at step 10 choose use entire disk.

1. Select a language, choose the language to use to get the installation process. The selected language will also be the default language for the installed system.

2. Select your location, the selected location will be used to set your time zone and also, for example, to help select the system locale. Normally this should be the country where you live. this is shortlisted of locations based on the language you selected. choose “other” if your location is not present on the list.

3. In this screen select your Keyboard Layout.

4. In this step Configure the Network, your system has multiple network interfaces. choose the one to use as the primary network interface during the installation. If possible, the first connected network interface find has been selected. The choices are eth0 or wlan0. eth0 is the ethernet cable you can connect to your computer. wland0 is through wifi. But due to that kali are not compatible with all wifi sticks I prefer eth0.

5. In this step you will maybe face a notification from Configure the Network read that carefully, Your network is probably not using the DHCP protocol. Alternatively, the DHCP server may be slow or some network hardware is not working properly. You can just press continue and go on. If you did not get it skip this and the next step and move on.

6. In this step select the network, from here you can choose to retry DHCP network autoconfiguration (Which may succeed if your DHCP server takes a long time to respond) or to configure the network manually. Some DHCP servers require a DHCP hostname to be sent by the client, so you can also choose to retry DHCP network autoconfiguration with a hostname that you provide. On this screen, select Do not configure the network at this time and click on Continue.

7. In this step rename the Host-name is a single word that identifies your system to the network, here I will choose Kali for Host and click Continue.

8. In this step, you need to Set up users and passwords. you need to set a password for ‘Root’ the system Administrative account.

9. In this screen Configure the Clock if the desired time zone is not displayed on the given option, so go back to the step and choose the language and select a country and set the clock.

10. In here select the Partition Disks, in below, there are five partitions, but I recommend to select Manual partition.

11. There are some settings to be set by you, have too much concentration and focus to create the same partition, which I showing you.

First, select the option where it says "FREE SPACE".

Next press "Continue".

Then it will ask for maximum size for the partition. Take away about 5 Gb from your max.

On the next step choose "beginning" and continue.

12. There are some more settings that you need to configure that, to have a better installation.

In the first screen select Done setting up the partition and Continue.

Then select the Swap-free space and Continue.

And select create a new partition to continue installation and click Continue.

The last step selects the journalling file system and clicks Continue.

13. On this screen, you will see the lists of How to use this partition, so I recommend you select the swap area the created partition.

14. In this step, you will edit the partition such as Name, Use as, Bootable flag Off, Delete the partition. and I recommend you to select Done setting up the partition and click Continue.

15. This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount points. and select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk and click Continue.

16. In this step, if you continue the changes listed below will be written to the disks, otherwise, you will be able to make further changes manually. here choose Yes option and click Continue, after that, click on Continue after continuing to be patient and wait for some minutes that setup should install Kali Linux.

17. Configure the package manager, a network mirror can be used to supplement the software that is included on the CD-ROM. This may also make newer versions of software available, and select No option and click Continue.

18. In this step Finish the installation, installation is complete, so it is time to boot into your new system. make sure to remove the installation media, so that you boot into the new system rather than restarting the installation. and finally, click on Continue to finish the installation.

19. If you installed dual systems you will be able to choose in the kali menu when starting the computer. Remember when logging in your username is "root".

20. CONGRATULATIONS you made it to the end! Now it is just to start programming and hacking ;)

These steps were taken from techsprobe for kali 2019.4 with some editing in the text.