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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials
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Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing Essentials

by Marco Alamanni
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
164 pages
3h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing Kali Linux

There are three methods to install Kali Linux, on the hard disk (on the single boot or multiboot), on a USB thumb drive to use it as a live system, or on a virtual machine using software such as Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation or Player.

The installation requires at least 10 GB of hard disk space and at least 1,024 MB of RAM is recommended, although Kali Linux can run over only 512 MB of RAM.

Installing Kali Linux on the hard drive is better regarding the performances but it has the drawback of dedicating all the hard disk space to it or partitioning the hard drive and using a partition to install it, while the installation on a virtual machine provides us a lightly slower system but also much more flexibility and ...

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ISBN: 9781785280856