Originally Posted by
maverik35
Unebootin?????.Please, read "Kali USB Installation". Do not use unebootin...Please read Kali wiki.
This thread is a bit old but pertinent to me as I am having similar issues.
Not sure I understand your response not to use unetbootin. I believe he was trying to run Kali from the LiveUSB stick (rather than install from the stick) and used unetbootin to put Kali on the stick, which I thought was a preferred method?
The Kali Wiki does say to use Win32 Disk Imager. Hoewever, Win32 Disk Imager does not write ISO images (and probably should be fixed in the Wiki). Quoting the Sourceforge Wiki: "This is a Windows program for saving and restoring images from removable drives (USB drives, SD Memory cards, etc). It can be used to write boot images (i.e. ubuntu-12.04-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+omap4.img) to a SD Flash device or USB flash device, making it bootable. It currently does not* support writing an ISO image to usb."
This is the incorrect (I think) Wiki entry re using Win32 Disk Imager that I think needs editing -- from: http://docs.kali.org/installation/ka...ve-usb-install
Preparing for the USB copy
Download Kali linux.
If running Windows, download Win32 Disk Imager.
No special software is needed for a *nix OS.
A USB Key (at least 2GB capacity for mini, 4GB for regular).
Kali Linux Live USB Install Procedure
Imaging Kali on a Windows Machine
Plug your USB stick into your Windows USB port and launch the Win32 Disk Imager software
Choose the Kali Linux ISO file to be imaged and verify that the USB drive to be overwritten is the correct one.
kali-usb-install-windows
Once the imaging is complete, safely eject the USB drive from the Windows machine. You can now use the USB device to boot into Kali Linux.
Thanks,
Eunix
EDIT:
Alright, it looks like my problem is the docs recommend Win32 Disk Imager, but Win32 Disk Imager says it won't load an ISO. So I'm not sure if I am still supposed to try and load the ISO anyway? I also ran into some confusion with Unetbootin, the docs don't mention that you shouldn't use it and I assumed it was a standard installer for Kali (as it is for many other distros). I further compounded that confusion by successfully using Unetbootin to load Kali 64 onto a stick and it ran fine in Live mode. Only after it didn't work when I tried to run a 32 bit stick did I see that Unetbootin is not recommended. I am doing some further testing to see how Unetbootin does/doesn't work and if it is possible to fix the install post Unetboot by modifying a few files. Modifying the syslinux.cfg file is an option (see post #7 at https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...ll-Kali-at-all) . One standard response to how to install a LiveUSB stick is "read the docs" and "use DD". But the goal (for me at least) is to figure out how to do it from a Windows environment.