Hey guys,
Have just started to get amongst Kali Linux. Been enjoying moderate success in what I've been doing but now the youtube tutorials have lead me to an instructional that requires Hashcat. I usually do all my training on a Macbook Pro, running Kali on VM. I know this method doesn't allow direct use of the GPU from the host system so I've installed Kali on the Desktop PC which has an Nvidea GeForce GTX 970 (I know thats not overly flash but it makes more sense to just let the PC chug away in the corner for days on end while I can still use my Macbook Pro).
I have only just recently (today) been able to get my GUI back after a bug in the dist-upgrade package. That was a major pain in the **** but as I had a number of cloned Kali machines in VM, I could just experiment, delete if something bad happened during these updates and revert to a working system when things went south. Meant I didn't have to sit there and wait, while an entirely new fresh install downloaded all the updates and upgrades required for a fresh install.
So... the issue is with having Kali just running as a boot stand-alone OS on of the PC's extra internal HDs, I don't really have the option of throwing these (pretty severe) updates at Kali anymore; if I have a major stuff-up (like I just did), I have no prior version to revert to.
So my question/issue is what is the correct way to install the relevant nvidia drivers for my system in order to use Hashcat? I have done quite a lot of googling and ended up following the advice to:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms
However this left me with an unbootable system. Would barely get past the grub boot screen. Again, did a shedload of Googling and tried everything I could or that seemed relevant to fix the problem. My options were very limited as I couldn't even CTRL-ALT-F1-6 to bring up a command prompt.
My googling suggests the other way to do this is to download the relevant driver from nvidia and just install manually via the run function. Like I said though, doing a fresh install and then downloading all the updates every time this doesn't work is very time consuming, would love to just do it right.
Then of course there's more talk of cuda drivers/packages as well. If anyone has the time to step a newbie through this I would be much appreciated.
Thanks everyone.
Brad
