#1 2017-06-03 15:51:06

Killerspec

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Dual boot with Kali

I have Kali Linux installed on my system at the moment for college and really love #! are there any guides as to what I need to do to install it along side Kali?

Thanks for any help in advance

Killerspec

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

I have Kali Linux installed on my system at the moment for college and really love #! are there any guides as to what I need to do to install it along side Kali?

Thanks for any help in advance

Killerspec

There are a million tutorials on the interweb about dual booting - maybe have a search of them first? Basically you set up a partition, boot the live iso, and install to that partition.

NB You won't have any luck installing Crunchbang - it is discontinued, years out of date, and the repos are down. Try BunsenLabs instead

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Gaucho

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

Note that the BL installation overwrites your bootloader by default, making BL the first entry and Kali secondary. This is easily changed afterwards if you still prefer to use Kali as your primary OS.

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Sector11

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

^ To the best of my knowledge that is SOP for all distros.

The last one installed is the one that #1 in grub.

When in the distro you want as #1:

  $ sudo update-grub

well, at least with Debian based systems.

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Gaucho

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

You have to do a (for example)...

sudo grub-install /dev/sda

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ohnonot

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

^ yes from inside the distro you want to take care of grub.

and i'm sure the installer has an option to NOT install grub in the end?

pretty advanced stuff, but i'm sure a kali user can manage.

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Gaucho

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

There is a way, yes, it's just akward. When the installer asks if you wish to install grub choose no and continue. The installer then asks where to install it anyway, just enter your hard drive location, nothing will get installed.

Reboot and run sudo update-grub from Kali to create the BL boot entries.

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Steve

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

^^ yes it is awkward, left me thinking did i do that right. As long as you choose "NO" to installing a bootloader the rest of it is a phantom menace.

stevep

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

Maybe I'm missing something here.  Why are you installing Kali, when it's specifically designed to be run from a pendrive as a penetration testing tool?  It runs as root, you know...

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

Why are you installing Kali

Perhaps the OP wants to use their GPU to crack password hashes.

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Re: Dual boot with Kali

Why are you installing Kali

Perhaps the OP wants to use their GPU to crack password hashes.

LOL that would be a stretch if his machine is old.

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