Unlike most other Raspberry Pi Linux distributions, there is no 'initial setup/configuration' dialog during the first boot, it just comes right up to the login screen. So if you want to have a separate home or work partition, you should set that up on the SD card (using gparted or some such partition manager) before booting the first time. Keep in mind that the image will be written to the card with an 8.5GB root filesystem, and that will be expanded to fill the free space on the SD card during the first boot. These images uncompress to about 9GB, so you will need at least a 16GB microSD card, and if you are going to do any serious work with it you will almost certainly need an even larger card. Xzcat | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progressĪs always, carefully replace /dev/sd X with the actual device name for your SD card device. These are all xz compressed images each about 2GB, which can be expanded and copied to a microSD card with this command:

An image specifically for the Pi Zero and Zero W.

A 64-bit image which will run on the Pi 2v1.2, 3, 4 and 400.

A 32-bit image which will run on all versions of the Pi 2, 3, 4 and 400.

Kali Linux for the Raspberry Pi can be downloaded from the Offensive Security ARM Images web page (not the main Kali Downloads page, although there is a link to the correct page there). Hopefully the more powerful Raspberry Pi 4 and the more mature Kali Linux 2020.4 will remedy that. The combination of the inexpensive and portable Raspberry Pi hardware and the Kali Linux distribution has seemed extremely promising to me for several years now, but so far it hasn't really fulfilled my expectations. Kali is specifically made for security analysis and penetration testing, and is preloaded and configured for that purpose. I am going to complete this series with a look at Kali Linux, one of my favorite specialist Linux distributions.

Over the past few weeks, I have tried out Ubuntu, Manjaro, openSUSE and the latest Raspberry Pi OS release on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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