Kali 2015-06-16 - Revision history

Admin at 07:43, 27 August 2015

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Admin at 06:17, 28 July 2015

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Admin at 20:15, 18 June 2015

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	After that, I booted into the installer and was on my way in no time, without any of the problems I was seeing about bad repository mirrors when I used the PXE network boot method.		After that, I booted into the installer and was on my way in no time, without any of the problems I was seeing about bad repository mirrors when I used the PXE network boot method.

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Admin: /* Newton */

2015-06-17T09:29:01Z

Newton

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	This was really straightforward, nothing fancy.		This was really straightforward, nothing fancy.

	=~~Newton~~=		=Jupiter=

	~~Installing~~ Kali Linux on ~~Newton~~ because ~~the~~ optical drive ~~is having a~~ problem. ~~Using the Kali install media (same one that worked on mars) results in a~~ "non-bootable media" ~~error~~.		I had a DVD install of Kali Linux that worked fine on mars, but didn't work on jupiter because of an optical drive problem. I was getting "non-bootable media" errors when I forced it to boot from the CD.

	F10 ~~allows us to boot~~ from the network~~, so we're going~~ to set up ~~mars as~~ a PXE server, serve up a fresh Kali .iso image to ~~Newton, and bing~~.		Pressing F10 during bootup on jupiter boots from the network. The plan is to set up a PXE boot server on the network, and serve up a fresh Kali .iso image to jupiter.

	==Setting Up PXE Server==		==Setting Up PXE Server==
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	<pre>		<pre>
	~~root@mars:~#~~ apt-get install dnsmasq		$ apt-get install dnsmasq
	~~Get:1 http://security.kali.org/ kali/updates/main dnsmasq-base i386 2.62-3+deb7u3 [364 kB]~~
	~~Get:2 http://security.kali.org/ kali/updates/main dnsmasq all 2.62-3+deb7u3 [16.3 kB]~~
	~~Fetched 381 kB in 1s (278 kB/s)~~
	~~Reading changelogs... Done~~
	~~(Reading database ... 322018 files and directories currently installed.)~~
	~~Preparing to replace dnsmasq-base 2.62-3+deb7u1 (using .../dnsmasq-base_2.62-3+deb7u3_i386.deb) ...~~
	~~Unpacking replacement dnsmasq-base ...~~
	~~Selecting previously unselected package dnsmasq.~~
	~~Unpacking dnsmasq (from .../dnsmasq_2.62-3+deb7u3_all.deb) ...~~
	~~Processing triggers for man-db ...~~
	~~Setting up dnsmasq-base (2.62-3+deb7u3) ...~~
	~~Setting up dnsmasq (2.62-3+deb7u3) ...~~
	~~update-rc.d: We have no instructions for the dnsmasq init script.~~
	~~update-rc.d: It looks like a network service, we disable it.~~
	~~insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `dnsmasq' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).~~
	~~insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `dnsmasq' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).~~
	</pre>		</pre>

Admin: /* USB Jumpdrive */

2015-06-17T09:22:55Z

USB Jumpdrive

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 I gave up on a network install and put a Kali Linux iso onto a jump drive. [http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-install Instructions here].
-==USB Jumpdrive==
+==Bootable Kali USB jump drive==
+To put a Kali Linux iso onto a USB drive...

Admin: /* Errors */

2015-06-17T08:30:26Z

Errors

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	I gave up on a network install and put a Kali Linux iso onto a jump drive. [http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-install Instructions here].		I gave up on a network install and put a Kali Linux iso onto a jump drive. [http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-install Instructions here].

			==USB Jumpdrive==

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Admin: /* My Solution */

2015-06-17T08:30:01Z

My Solution

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	===My Solution===		===My Solution===

	I gave up on a network install and put a Kali Linux iso onto a jump drive.		I gave up on a network install and put a Kali Linux iso onto a jump drive. [http://docs.kali.org/downloading/kali-linux-live-usb-install Instructions here].

Admin: /* Errors */

2015-06-17T08:29:38Z

Errors

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	* http://askubuntu.com/questions/385627/why-did-i-a-get-a-bad-archive-mirror		* http://askubuntu.com/questions/385627/why-did-i-a-get-a-bad-archive-mirror
	* https://www.storagecraft.com/support/forum/install-error-bad-archive-mirror		* https://www.storagecraft.com/support/forum/install-error-bad-archive-mirror
			* https://forums.kali.org/archive/index.php/t-118.html

	And not a single answer that worked. All the threads are dead, or ended mid-conversation.		And not a single answer that worked. All the threads are dead, or ended mid-conversation. The last one looked halfway promising, but nope.

	~~This one is~~ a ~~bit promising: https://forums.kali.org/archive/index.php/t-118~~.~~html~~		===My Solution===

			I gave up on a network install and put a Kali Linux iso onto a jump drive.

Admin at 08:24, 17 June 2015

2015-06-17T08:24:59Z

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	And not a single answer that worked. All the threads are dead, or ended mid-conversation.		And not a single answer that worked. All the threads are dead, or ended mid-conversation.

			This one is a bit promising: https://forums.kali.org/archive/index.php/t-118.html

Admin: Created page with "Initial setup of mars Working on newton via PXE Then cronus via USB =Mars= This was really straightforward, nothing fancy. =Newton= Installing Kali Linux on Newton because ..."

2015-06-17T08:17:02Z

Created page with "Initial setup of mars Working on newton via PXE Then cronus via USB =Mars= This was really straightforward, nothing fancy. =Newton= Installing Kali Linux on Newton because ..."

New page

Initial setup of mars

Working on newton via PXE

Then cronus via USB

=Mars=

This was really straightforward, nothing fancy.

=Newton=

Installing Kali Linux on Newton because the optical drive is having a problem. Using the Kali install media (same one that worked on mars) results in a "non-bootable media" error.

F10 allows us to boot from the network, so we're going to set up mars as a PXE server, serve up a fresh Kali .iso image to Newton, and bing.

==Setting Up PXE Server==

Following [http://docs.kali.org/installation/kali-linux-network-pxe-install these instructions].

===Install dnsmasq===

<pre>
root@mars:~# apt-get install dnsmasq
Get:1 http://security.kali.org/ kali/updates/main dnsmasq-base i386 2.62-3+deb7u3 [364 kB]
Get:2 http://security.kali.org/ kali/updates/main dnsmasq all 2.62-3+deb7u3 [16.3 kB]
Fetched 381 kB in 1s (278 kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 322018 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dnsmasq-base 2.62-3+deb7u1 (using .../dnsmasq-base_2.62-3+deb7u3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dnsmasq-base ...
Selecting previously unselected package dnsmasq.
Unpacking dnsmasq (from .../dnsmasq_2.62-3+deb7u3_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dnsmasq-base (2.62-3+deb7u3) ...
Setting up dnsmasq (2.62-3+deb7u3) ...
update-rc.d: We have no instructions for the dnsmasq init script.
update-rc.d: It looks like a network service, we disable it.
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `dnsmasq' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `dnsmasq' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).
</pre>

===Change dnsmasq configuration===

<pre>
$ vim /etc/dnsmasq.conf
</pre>

set the options:

<pre>
interface=eth0
dhcp-range=192.168.101.100,192.168.101.200,12h
dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0
enable-tftp
tftp-root=/tftpboot/
dhcp-option=3,192.168.101.1
dhcp-option=6,8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4
</pre>

===Restart dnsmasq===

<pre>
service dnsmasq restart

</pre>

===Make PXE Netboot Images===

Make the images available via the PXE server with the following commands:

<pre>
mkdir -p /tftpboot
cd /tftpboot
# for 32 bit systems:
wget http://repo.kali.org/kali/dists/kali/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
tar zxpf netboot.tar.gz
rm netboot.tar.gz
</pre>

==Errors==

Doing a basic install, the installer would download files from the Debian release repository. But after it got to 100%, it would give me a red screen and an error about a bad archive mirror.

This was really, really frustrating, not least because everyone who asked this question online got the same, unhelpful, irrelevant answers.
* http://serverfault.com/questions/240942/bad-archive-mirror-using-pxe-boot-method
* https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?3313-Bad-archive-mirror-How-to-solve-this-one
* https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/45/t/1147
* http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1748181
* http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/bad-archive-mirror-on-debian-wheezy-install-4175510400/
* http://askubuntu.com/questions/392874/ubuntu-server-12-04-bad-archive-mirror
* http://askubuntu.com/questions/385627/why-did-i-a-get-a-bad-archive-mirror
* https://www.storagecraft.com/support/forum/install-error-bad-archive-mirror

And not a single answer that worked. All the threads are dead, or ended mid-conversation.