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Install Kali Linux on a Laptop - Foolproof Step-by-Step Guide!
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Jul 16, 2022
Quite a lot of things have changed in the new Kali installer, we cover the whole installation routine on a Laptop. Follow along! If your USB drive gets messed up, here's how to fix it: https://www.ceos3c.com/sysadmin/repair-usb-drive-windows-10/ ⮘-=[⭐Ceos3c's Amazon Store⭐]=-⮚ ↬ https://www.amazon.com/shop/ceos3ctutorials ⮘-=[70% Off 3 Years of NordVPN + 4 Extra Free Months Deal!]=-⮚ ↬ https://nordvpn.org/ceos3c ⮘-=[Automated Ad Management with Ezoic's AI]=-⮚ ↬ http://ezoic.com?tap_a=6182-5778c2&tap_s=551885-8d5d96 ⮘-=[Subscribe]=-⮚ ↬ https://www.youtube.com/c/ceos3ctutorials?sub_confirmation=1 ⮘-=[Support Me (please :))]=-⮚
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Hey guys, what's up everyone? Welcome back to a new video. As it is tradition on this channel
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as soon as there is a new release of Kali Linux, we are going to update our how to install Kali Linux
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videos as well. And today we are going to update the how to install Kali Linux 2020.1
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on a laptop video using UEFI BIOS. I feel like I don't have or I don't want to make an UEFI
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and a legacy video because I think most modern laptops should be capable of running UEFI
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and it's the more secure choice anyway so I won't cover legacy BIOS so make sure your laptop has
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UEFI BIOS available before following this tutorial. Another thing I want to point out and mention
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more explicitly this time is warning that this is not a dual boot video and everything on your
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laptop's hard drive is going to be deleted and is not recoverable if you follow this tutorial
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This is a destructive method to install Kali Linux. We're just going to use the one hard drive that
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you have available in your laptop and if you have Windows installed on your laptop and you follow
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this method, your Windows installation will be gone and you will not be able to go back to Windows 10
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or whatever Windows you have running on your laptop. This might seem a bit ridiculous to some of you
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but you won't believe how many comments and messages I get on YouTube after somebody followed my tutorial and all their data is gone and they can't go back to Windows 10
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Even there was a disclaimer in each of every one of my videos, so I just wanted to make that more explicitly
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If you don't know what you're doing, please don't follow this instruction
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You might lose all of your data. That's the bottom line of the warning here
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Okay, with that out of the way, we can get right started. and the first thing we are going to do is we are going to download Rufus
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We need this tool to create a bootable USB drive so we are able to make a bootable version of Kali Linux
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Go to rufus.ie and scroll down a bit until you find download
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and click on Rufus 3.8 to download it. Next, go to kali.org, click on downloads
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and download the Kali Linux 64-bit installer. obviously if you have a 32-bit system go for the 32-bit installer but most of you should be
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running a 64-bit system therefore choose the 64-bit version once you have both of those things
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downloaded open up rufus and make sure you have a usb drive plugged into your computer with
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sufficient space i think eight gigabytes should do i have a 16 gigabyte stick in there then click
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Click on select, here go to your downloads folder and then select the Kali Linux 2020.1
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installer amd64.iso file and click on open. You can change the name of the volume if you wanted but you don't need to, just go ahead
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and click on start, make sure the correct USB drive is selected here and make sure that
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you are aware of everything on the USB drive will be deleted
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Click on start. there is a newer version of syslinux available, then click on yes And then it important you choose right in the image mode That a crucial step here otherwise the installer will fail at some point Click on OK to accept that all data is going to be destroyed
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This is also fine. Click on OK and let the image right
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And once this is done, unplug your USB drive from your computer and plug it into your laptop
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Okay guys, so as you know, this is not the easiest to film this on an actual laptop
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I'll do my best. I hope the quality is sufficient. But I just basically put my USB drive into my laptop and I brought up the boot menu
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And to bring up the boot menu, you can simply Google the name of your laptop model and a
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menu and then you should get an instruction on how to get in there
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I have a Lenovo notebook and there it is pressing the F12 key while the laptop is starting
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Then you should end up in a menu like this or something similar
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Okay, so next we are going to select our USB drive to boot up the Kali installer
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And as I have said, there have been a couple of changes made to 2020.1
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One of them is the installer is leaner now, but the other thing is I'll just went through the installation
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Actually, I have to re-record this because I haven't connected my laptop to the Internet
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And what happened then was it just installed the base install of Kali Linux without a desktop environment
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So I ended up with the installation with the command line only. That means that you have to have a Internet connection available as of now
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that means you need to plug a network cable into your laptop or in a later
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point on this tutorial you can connect to a Wi-Fi network during the installation
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so let's see if we can get it installed now you want to select graphical install
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and I think that's going to change eventually later but as of now that's
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how it is okay for language you can leave it on English and then you can
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select your location or you don't it's up to you then you select the keyboard
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layout I'm gonna choose the German one here there we go and now it's detecting
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and mounting the installation media and if you get an arrow here you are probably
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you haven't probably selected the d-image mode while writing the image with Rufus. So in case you get an error here go back through the process of
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creating a bootable USB device this time selecting the d-image mode. Okay see now it's detecting the network hardware which should be fine now
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because now I'm connected to the network and there are some of your hardware needs
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some additional firmware and that looks like the Wi-Fi driver so I leave that on
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yes and I click on continue and I'm not sure if it's gonna find it last time I
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went through that it didn't find it but maybe it doesn't find it actually so I'm
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going with no here this is a bit weird because this was still working with
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Kali 2019 I have an older Lenovo laptop here but nevertheless it should include the Wi drivers here but it doesn so in case you come over that just go ahead and plug in a LAN cable
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and you should be fine then you can change the host name if you want to I leave it on default
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which is Kali then you can select the domain name if you want to or not click on continue
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full name for the new user that is first and last name i'll just call that kali and root
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whatever it does not really matter you don't need to put a name there at all and then a username
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for your new user account which is a low privilege user i would not recommend leaving it on kali
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choose any other username you want and select a more secure password than i have here okay
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there we go continue and then configure the clock do on whatever you want here
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just choose your proper time zone and let's see now it should be installing
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the main system in a second after we choose which hard drive we want to use
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for that so we choose guided use entire disk then we want to select our SSD
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which obviously is the larger one. The one below here is the USB drive
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Click on continue. Then you want all files in one partition, click on continue
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And last chance, be aware again. If you choose yes here, your hard drive will be wiped
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and you won't be able to go back to your previous operating system. If you are aware of that, click on continue
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and click on yes to write the changes on the disk. There we go
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Now it's writing some stuff there and after that we will be able to choose our desktop
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environment and also choose the tools we want to install. Alright, if you use a proxy you can enter that information here now, otherwise click
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on continue and now it's updating apt and in a second we will be able to choose desktop environment
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There we go. So the thing that has that has changed from the previous versions of Kali Linux is that now you are able to select which
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desktop environment you want to use during the installation So you can choose between XFCE gnome and all the other ones
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during the installation here and the particular desktop environment that you choose will be installed after that the same goes for tools
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You can now choose which tools you want to install you can leave it as default
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Like you had it in the past with all the default Kali tools You can install Kali Linux without any tools or you can install Kali Linux with a couple of other options
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Which I will show you in a second And there we go. So this is exactly what I said you can choose the desktop environment here
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You can choose Gnome KDE LXDE matte and I'll just leave it on XFCE for now
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Then this is tick per default and then you can choose which kind of tools you want to install
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So you can choose light base system with no pen testing tools or the top 10 only or default
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The recommended tools large all of the tools Everything almost all tools whatever is the difference between those I couldn find it out on the Kali website or Kali documentation as of yet There is no indication of which tools are going to be installed
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whether which one of those options you choose. And then you can also install tools by purpose here
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So you have a lot of options. Choose whatever you want. If you are not sure what to choose, leave it on default
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You are perfectly fine with that. For the purpose of this demonstration
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I'm just to save some time I'm just going to go for a light because I don't care about tools I'm
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gonna wipe this drive again anyway okay so whatever you have chosen click on continue next
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and now the tools and the desktop environment that you have chosen will be installed and this
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can take depending on what you selected if you select large with everything it can take quite
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long I have spent I think 25 minutes the last time I have tried to install it and
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there we have it the installer just completed and if all went well we will be
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able to boot into Kali now okay let's see let's go through it together as I've
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said the last time I've did this I ended up with a base system of Kali because I
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haven't had a network cable connected but I'm positive that this time we will
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be ending up in a desktop environment hopefully let's see yeah that looks much
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better okay I'm a bit relieved because those videos take a long time to do okay
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so login with your credentials that you have set up during the installation
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and if everything went well we should be in kali linux right there okay that's it and the first
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thing or the only thing i'm actually going to show you is sudo apt update and and sudo apt upgrade
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tech Y and this is what you want to run first and that's it
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that's how to install Kali Linux 2020.1 on a laptop and if you don't know where to go from here
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look in the upper right corner of the video right now there is my video on the top things to do
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after installing Kali Linux if you don't know where to go from here and also if you search through my channel there are a lot of other videos
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like how to get started with cyber security or how to use Kali Linux to do
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certain things so just look through my channel and I'm sure you'll find
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something of interest that if you're interested in penetration testing and learning how to hack that being said guys I thank you very much for watching
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be able to continue producing videos for you guys. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you back in the next video. Bye
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