How to Install Kali Linux: Method 1 Kali Linux Live USB Drive (Kali Linux Live Mode/Kali Linux Live Boot)

 

How to Install Kali Linux: Method 1 Kali Linux Live USB Pen drive (Kali Linux Live Mode/Live Boot)

Table of Content
Requirements
Downloading Kali Linux ISO File
Downloading and Installation of Rufus Tool
Making Bootable Live USB Drive
Kali Linux Live Boot from USB Drive

Hello Friends,
In this article we will learn to make live USB drive for Kali Linux and what its benefits is already you know that so you search for it and reading this post right now. so, don’t waste more time let’s do this!
Kali Linux live USB drive is for recover windows forgotten password, recovering deleted data and many more.
This Linux distro is widely use in the world. It’s the world’s most powerful and popular penetration testing platform, used by security professionals in a wide range of specializations, including penetration testing, forensic, reverse engineering, and vulnerability assessments.
Kali Linux live system have all the required tools are pre-installed so you can direct use that to perform any task at anywhere, anytime & also on any laptop which have secure boot disable and bios password is not set.

Requirements
Kali Linux ISO File
USB Drive/Pen drive (8GB Minimum & USB 3.0 Is Good If You Have)
Rufus Tool
Internet Connection
Brain (Most Important)

Downloading Kali Linux ISO File
Go to Kali Linux official website.
Choose Live ISO File for making Live using drive.
Confirm that your PC/laptop is runs on 32Bit or 64bit Operating System and Then choose ISO File for downloading.
If you don’t know how to check for that then simply click here (How to Check You PC/Laptop has 32bit or 64bit Operating System?)

Downloading Rufus Tool
Go to Rufus official website.
Here you’ve two choice for downloading, installer & portable.
You can download any of them but I’m using portable because it doesn’t require installation.

Making Bootable USB Drive/Pen drive
Insert your pen drive to your computer.
Open Rufus Tool and you notice that Rufus tool automatically detect your pen drive.
Now select Kali Linux ISO File.
Other any settings remain same, don’t change anything and simply click on write.
It is common that after reading above step you have a question in your mind about what is MBR/GPT and BIOS/UEFI.
For that (What is MBR and GPT?) and (What is BIOS/UEFI?) read these two articles, it’s really important to know.
Select DD Image Mode for write.
Now Wait for 15-20 minutes because it takes some time depending on your PC and Pen drive Speed.

Booting from Pen drive
Now it’s time to boot from USB Pen drive.
For boot from USB drive you have to change some settings like disabling secure boot and set boot priority first to Pen drive (According to me boot priority/boot order setting doesn’t require because we can select Pen drive from our boot screen but secure boot is most important here)
For that (How to disable secure boot in PC/Laptop?) read this post.
Restart your PC/Laptop and boot from Pen drive so it will boot into Kali Linux.
In Kali Linux Menu choose Kali Live Mode (1st option) and hit enter.
Now you are ready to use Kali Linux Live Mode.

This drive also useful for installing Kali Linux to your system using Graphical Installation option in Kali boot menu.
We will cover this in next post so don’t worry about that and if you have any questions/Problems regarding to this information then do comment below, I will give you reply as soon as possible.