
Originally Posted by
lowcarb_ryebread
I have created a bootable thumbdrive with kali. I've also created a partition for persistence. I am able to boot into kali with a user of "kali" instead of root. I am not able to use any if the commands that I use. I keep getting the "command not found" message. I've tried ifconfig fdisk and a few others.
There are likely two different issues here. `ifconfig` doesn't exist in the core kali install anymore, it's been deprecated in favor of `ip`. So if you've for example created a live build from the "minimal" install, you won't find `ifconfig`. You need the "net-tools" package if you still want to use ifconfig.
The other possible issue has to do with the fact that kali now creates a non-root user by default. Since fdisk requires root to run, you need to use sudo:
Code:
$ which fdisk
$ sudo which fdisk
/usr/sbin/fdisk

Originally Posted by
lowcarb_ryebread
Another issue is that I have no network options. I'm suspecting that my nic isnt being recognized. I was able to use kali before without persistence with no problem before. I'm not sure how to fix it. Any ideas?
The network is off by default. You can bring it up this way:
Code:
$ ip a
# find the relevant interface, e.g. enpXXX
$ ip link set enpXXX up
$ sudo dhclient enpXXX