After Downloading Kali-Live-kde yesterday, and setting up persistence, I have found that I cannot install the realtek-rtl-88xxau-dkms package: on investigating, I found that Kali is running the 4.9 kernel (4.9.0?) but has only headers for 4.12 (4.12.0-kali1 ?) installed.
Attempting to upgrade the kernel to 4.12, the live-initramfs-update fails with an error message telling me that the kali-live partition is not mounted in the correct place (although persistence is working fine).
Anyone have a workaround for this, or does anyone know if an image with the correct kernel & headers is being built?
Thanks,
Peter.
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Not wanting to be impatient -just some additional thoughts...
Surely someone else has run into this issue? Maybe someone could confirm whether other Kali (2017.1) live iso's have the same problem, or not?
Alternatively, searches appear to indicate that this is not an uncommon issue with Kali (and presumably other) live iso images over the years; can anyone give me an idea of how long I might be looking at before this instance is fixed? I do understand that this could depend on a lot of things, but maybe someone could tell me whether they think this type of problem is likely to be taken very seriously (and what this might mean if it is)?
In the meantime.... as an alternative to upgrading the kernel, i considered installing the headers for the running kernel ...but they are no longer available. Is there an "old packages" repository which I can use?
Or, preferrably, having built the needed (4.12) vmlinuz and initramfs images on my non-live, hard-drive installed kali computer, is there a way to copy these images to the kali live partition on my usb drive (sdX1) or to get them working from the kali persistence partition (sdX3)? I have tried, but sdX1 is write protected (and I'm not sure you can actually write in this way to what is, in effect, an iso image)? And sdX3 is for persistence, not for booting from.
Thoughts?
(Cheers)