In this example, we'll create a new partition to store our persistent data into, starting right above the second Kali Live partition and ending at 7GB, put an ext3 file system onto it, and create a nf file on the new partition.įirst, begin by imaging the latest Kali Linux ISO to your USB drive usingĭd if= of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progressĭd if= | pv -s 2.8G | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=4M Of about 4GB to store our persistent data in. Takes over 3GB, and for this guide, we'll be creating a new partition

your USB drive has a capacity of at least 8GB - the Kali Linux image.On linux : From - kali-linux-live-usb-persistence Use persistent live USB for that.Īdding Persistence to a Linux 'Live' USB Drive It's not a problem but a expected behaviour ir Live USB. Note - the above applications work by copying all iso files to drive and then make it bootable and thus using comple USB drive When I shutdown my computer and opened Kali Linux live everything I installed got deleted. To use complete drives as bootable USB, you will have to extract files from an iso file into a FAT32 file system in a partition in a USB pendrive You simply created bootable USB by cloning from an iso file onto the device of a USB pendrive. (With VMware-which I used from 1999 until switching to using VirtualBox-you could directly use an existing partition as drive for the virtual machine.Why I have about only 8Gb of storage on a 64Gb flash drive I have done exactly this using VirtualBox to prepare a remote upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04 (prepared on a 12.04 box), but there is nothing very special about the procedure that other VM software could not be used. If so write the output to /boot/boot/grub.cfg and after a reboot Kali should be available in the startup men and bootable. ( something like find / -print0 | cpio -pdmv0 /mnt/new_disc).Ĥ) Adjust the mount points in /etc/fstab on the target partition (adjusting /dev/sdXY names or UUIDS as necessary)ĥ) Run grub-mkconfig under Ubuntu, check the output for Kali being recognised. This can be done from a downloaded installation image of Kali Linux.Ģ) Once you have a VM setup, format the emtpy partition, mount it and tell the VM control application to make that available to the Kali VM (or mount the Kali VM disc directly in your os, if that is supported).ģ) Copy all the files so that the root of the Kali VM gets to the base of the mounted empty partition. There might be more direct ways, but one thing you can do is:ġ) Prepare an installation in a virtual machine under Ubuntu 12.04.

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