Installation Requirements
- Minimum 20 GB of free space in your hard drive is recommended.
- Minimum 1 GB of ram, recommended: 2 GB or more in Hard Disk install or dual boot installation but if you are opting for installing it with virtualization in your current OS (Virtual Box) then at least 4 GB of ram is recommended.
- CD-DVD Drive / USB Support
Getting Started with Installation
- Download Kali Linux
- Burn the Kali ISO to DVD or make a bootable pen drive with Rufus
Installation Procedure
STEP 1: Boot with your chosen medium or load the Kali ISO. The below-shown screen must appear, choose the graphical install (recommended for new users)
STEP 2:Select your preferred language.
STEP 3: Select your geographical location
STEP 4: Select the preferred keyboard
STEP 5: Let kali be your hostname & hit continue
STEP 6: You may optionally provide a default domain name for this system to use or you can keep it blank and can hit on continue.
STEP 7: Set a password for your Kali Machine & hit continue.
STEP 8: The installer will now offer you four choices about the partitions of the disk.
In our case, we are using the entire disk on our computer and not configuring LVM (logical volume manager). Experienced users can use the “Manual”
partitioning method for more granular configuration options.
STEP 9: Select the partitioning disk, the recommended option is all files in one partition for new users & then hit on continue.
STEP 10: Select finish partitioning and write changes to disk then hit continue
-> Select Yes to write changes to the disk and click on continue.
STEP 11: Configure network mirrors. Kali uses a central repository to distribute applications, select Yes on mirror network & hit on continue.
--> keep HTTP proxy information blank on next screen and hit continue.
NOTE: If you select “No” on this screen then you will not be able to install packages from kali repositories. Click here to manually install Kali repositories if you have selected “No” by mistake or if there is any error while installation. Let the installation get completed and then you can manually install Kali repositories by the instructions given on this link: https://docs.kali.org/general-use/kali-linux-sources-list-repositories
STEP 12: Install the grub boot loader manually so select Yes & hit on continue.
STEP 13: Select the hard-disk to install which means select 2nd option where the hard disk path is given as we are not going to enter a device manually
& then hit on continue.
STEP 14: Finally, click on continue to finish the installation, it will install some final stage files and after it is completely done,
your security related weapons loaded Kali is ready to roll!
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