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baboonia
2013-05-05, 17:08
I'm trying to make a bootable USB distribution of Kali with persistence to run on a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.7.5 aka Lion.
I've tried Penguintosh (http://penguintosh.com/)and an ISO image I downloaded from the Kali site, but Penguintosh hangs at Step4.
Has anyone gotten Kali to boot on a Mac via a USB stick? If so, how did you do it?
I used win32 disk imager and imaged the ISO to my thumb drive, then just rebooted and held option key and it booted right up.
Not sure what would happen if I tried to partition the actual drive though in my mac, I'm assuming it would fail, but maybe not.
I have a 13" MBP retina.
maverik35
2013-05-08, 17:51
I'm trying to make a bootable USB distribution of Kali with persistence to run on a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.7.5 aka Lion.
I've tried Penguintosh (http://penguintosh.com/)and an ISO image I downloaded from the Kali site, but Penguintosh hangs at Step4.
Has anyone gotten Kali to boot on a Mac via a USB stick? If so, how did you do it?
Refer to the wiki..Only 2 methods: dd command and win32 disk imager..Try dd command.
dd failed twice for me in Snow Leopard. Just for reference I'd use the disk imager.
maverik35
2013-05-09, 17:23
well, why not use a windows or linux machine from a friend and try.
Or use a dvd live linux distro, mount the USB stick and the partition where you downloaded the ISO and use dd command to copy ISO.
Luck.