Kali Linux bootable USB with persistence

in this video i'm going to show you how to boot kali linux off a usb flash drive so in this example i'm booting cali directly off this usb flash drive but i don't just want to show you how to do that i want to show you how to get persistency so how to create a usb flash drive that has persistency so that when you change settings for instance connect to a wireless network or create a file all of that information is held or is persistent across reboots so in this video i'm going to show you all the steps how to download the required software how to set up the usb flash drive for persistency how to write the information to the flash drive how to set up the bios of your computer in some cases you may need to go into the bios of your laptop and set it to boot off the usb flash drive you may also be required to turn off a secure boot to get this to work but once again in this video i'm going to show you all the steps to get this working so that you can boot cali or for usb flash drive with persistency let's get started now the two things that you need to download you need to download kali and you need to download some software to write kelly to the usb flash drive so on the kali website go to downloads download kali linux select this version kali linux 64-bit live you don't want to get the installer version because you don't want to install kali on your hard drive you want to get the live version because you want to boot cali off the usb flash drive or thumb drive if you prefer so click on that to download kelly linux to your local computer now in this example i've pre-downloaded it because sometimes i find that the downloads are very slow this file is about three and a half gig in size the next thing you need to download is software and there are multiple options for this but i'm gonna download rufus you can download this either from github or from the rufus.ie website when you click on the download link it'll take you to the same place so in this example i'm going to download rufus 3.13 that's actually downloading the software from github so as you can see here github production so you could either download it from github or download it from the rufus website so that's downloaded now so i'm going to double click on the file windows is complaining that i didn't download this from the microsoft app store i'm happy with that so i'm going to click install anyway i'm going to say yes to allow the device to make changes to my computer the software is now ready so i'm going to plug in the usb flash drive so volume is detected now it's detected that the kingston usb drive is 32 gig in size it's already got multiple partitions that's okay because i'm going to wipe that usb flash drive i need to select the iso that i'm going to write so in this example i'm going to write the cali 2020.4 a live iso file so click open and here's the trick to get persistency drag this option persistent partition size in my example i can use 25 gig for the persistent partition kelly needs about four gig so that's what i have available and now i can simply click start to write this image to the usb thumb drive or flash drive now i'm told that there's a problem and additional software needs to be downloaded do i want to download the software answer is yes and then i'm told that all data on the device will be destroyed am i happy to do that yes i'm warned once again that i'll be responsible for deleting all the information on that usb flash drive happy with that so i'm going to click ok partitions have been deleted drive is being formatted and now all you have to do basically is wait for the drive to be formatted and the software to be written so at this point i'm going to speed up the video so that you don't have to wait a long time for that to take place okay so in my example that took about 18 minutes to complete now that that's done i can click close and i can reboot my computer now in my example i need to keep holding f2 down to boot this laptop into its bios now have a look at the documentation for your laptop to see how you boot it into its bios you need to do this because we firstly need to tell the laptop to boot off the usb and you may have to remove secure boot okay so in my example i'm going to go to boot and then i'm going to specify that the kingston flash drive is the first device to boot off under security i'm also going to remove secure boot so make sure that you've done that otherwise you may have problems booting off the usb flash drive okay i'm going to save my changes and exit okay laptop is booting up and as you can see it's booted cali off the usb flash drive so what i'm going to select is live system persistence and press enter to boot kali and there you go kelly has now booted off the usb flash drive but let's prove that it's persistent so one of the first things i'm going to do is select a wireless network wireless network i want to connect to is the tp-link wireless network i need to put in a password so this is a little test network i'll put in my password and click connect okay so we've now connected to the wireless network let's prove that by opening firefox and i'll go to kali.org as an example click on one of the articles where they're talking about kelly in the last 12 months and what they're planning to do in 2021 okay so i've been able to connect to the internet let's create a folder on the desktop and i'll just call this test and inside here i'll create a document test one not very original but there you go and i'll just say test kelly and i'll save that document okay so on the desktop i've got this document so now let's see what happens when we reboot we'll double check now whether the document is still there and whether i can still access the wireless network if the settings were preserved in other words we have persistency i'll be able to connect back to the wireless network and i'll still have that document on the desktop okay so gonna select a live system persistence okay so as you can see kali has booted and notice i still have my document on the desktop so it's preserved the document and if i open up firefox i can still connect to the internet and for instance browse on the internet because cali has remembered the wi-fi details so we have persistency i've successfully created a persistent kali flash drive so what i'll do now is shut kelly down i'll remove the usb flash drive and turn the computer on again and notice it now boots into windows so i can boot back into windows again because i've removed this usb flash drive okay so there you go that's how you set up cali on a usb flash drive and set it for persistency hope you enjoyed this video if you did please like it please consider subscribing to my youtube channel and please click on the bell to get notifications i'm david bomble want to wish you all the very best

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Length: 9min 59sec (599 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 29 2020