I have a setup that i'm running in VBox. I like it alot and almost have everything just as I want it. My question is can I take my setup from vbox and do a full install on another system copying all files as-is now? If so, how please.... Thank you
I have a setup that i'm running in VBox. I like it alot and almost have everything just as I want it. My question is can I take my setup from vbox and do a full install on another system copying all files as-is now? If so, how please.... Thank you
Create a compressed tarball of your installation (with all the attributes copied over)
cd /; tar -cpvjf mykali-installation.tar.bz2 . --xattr --one-file-system
then use a live cd (eg, systemrescuecd) to partition and format your new setup. Then mount your / (eg to /mnt).
Then uncompress the tarball you created above into the new machine:
tar -xjpvf mykali-installation.tar.bz2 . -C /mnt
After that, you do have to do some final housekeeping like modifying the UUIDs in your /etc/fstab and grub.conf to match your hardware.
Finally, rebuild the grub bootloader by chroot-mounting:
mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
chroot /mnt
grub2-install /dev/sdX (replace X with whatever your boot drive is)
exit out of chroot
reboot
enjoy your new kali.
Hey, Thank you very much...