I hope this article is useful for newbies who are getting their heads messed up with VMs instead of just booting up Kali and getting their heads messed up by using Kali. Now, if you boot up to Live USB Persistence, you'll be able to save stuff everywhere on your Linux filesystem, and every configuration you make locally will be available everywhere you plug it in :) Closing Up Mount the partition on the directory you made (don't click the desktop icon labeled persistence!)Īdd a configuration file to enable persistenceĮcho '/ union' > /mnt/my_usb/nf

Make a directory on the filesystem to mount your USB Right click on your USB drive, and click on Move/Resize Your USB drive must have 8 GB+ of storage space.ĭownload MiniTool Partition Wizard Free, install it, run it and then choose Launch Application. pcap files) into your USB drive? You'll need to set up Persistence. You liked to Live boot from USB, but you want to save changes made into your OS, or just files (such as. Setting Up Persistence (Preparing the Partition) Wait for it to finish, and that's it, you have Kali on your USB drive now. Sudo dd if=/home/you/downloads/ of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512

Locate your Kali image and use it as input in this command:.

Just format it to be Fat32 with sudo mkfs.vfat -n 'Kali' -I /dev/sdb1

Let's say it's /dev/sdb and you haven't ever partitioned it.

Download the Kali ISO of your choice (32/64 bit).

Make sure you have a 4 GB+ USB drive connected and you're ready to get it cleaned.

It's way simpler and faster than Windows!

If you're already a Linux user, follow these steps to make a Kali Live USB.

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