I have had a long journey with Kali...so many installs.
- Kali on a virtual machine
- Kali-In-The-Browser (with websites)
- Kali Live USB Boot with Persistence
- Kali Linux
As most beginners do, I started out with Kali on VMWare (still have it). It is ok, honestly any other distro would be fine, but Kali needs access to the core components of your PC for some of the programs to function properly. So I decided to try a Live-Boot with a 128Gb Flash Drive and Persistence for saving. That was much better than the VM, it allowed Kali access to the components it needed, while not changing my current Disk. Then I said screw it and just installed it on my laptop and boy do I wish I did that from the beginning!!!
I am not sure if it has anything to do with the newer Kali builds, but as far as 'instructions for installing to hard drive', you really shouldn't need any...but just in case, this is what I did.
- Create a Bootable USB with the Kali Installer Image (MBR not GPT)
- Disable Secure Boot in BIOS (switch to USB boot first if you want)
- Plug in USB, restart PC, if you did not change the boot you power on your machine tap F(9, in my case most HPs are) look up the Function key that lets you choose the boot order
- Boot from USB
- Installer Screen comes up, follow instructions there.
- OPTIONAL: Before creating a boot image with the installer you can make a live one to get to 'gparted' for any partitioning or formatting you want to do before install.have
If you have a spare laptop lying around I highly suggest installing Kali this way (as opposed to VM). The speeds are incredible, the functionality is great and extremely customizable.
Code:
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y
That line is burned into my memory...