I ran into problems initially with an install of BT 5 r3 & win 7 booting with GRUB. I am dual booting with win 7 pro like many others. I ended up doing the full partition install guided & ended up with one big partition & a swap area this is not what I prefer. Today I went back through the install after getting some rest & ran into the same guided partitioning problem failing at install. That was last night and I gave up at some wee hour of the morning. I went manual & made sure that everything was properly formatted plus I erased any exsisting data from the partitions with the partition manager. It seemed rather odd to me that I would get an install fail using guided partitioning. This step will install base Kali tool and some other top tools.I had the same problem although it was installing with a guided partitioning using normal linux partition methods /, /usr, /var, swap, /tmp, & /home partitions. ***sudo apt-get install kali-desktop-xfceĪfter this kali need to download base tool set via meta package install.
This command will install GUI XFACE, after install you will be able to log into Kali GUI. Make sure that your Kali can reach to the internet. ****Log into the shell with your username and password then run these in a order and reboot. **** Basically hit continue and once you come to next step where you have option to skip,skip the step and installer will continue but when kali boot back you will be presented with basic debain shell. I’ve tried many times and different methods to install and come back to screen saying hit continue and it will bring up menu that you can skip the step of installing software, pretty much you will loose the GUI and all Kali packages.Īfter few hours browsing and cursing this the method I used to get kali install and functioning. This is pretty much loop back even after restart the install.
I’ve recently face an error with Kali Linux install in VMware Player and even after giving ample enough space /resources it was keep falling with install step failed and I’ve confirm that VM installer has internet access.