Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Hello in this article. I will show you how to make fully loaded persistent Kali Linux live from a USB drive. After that, your pen drive will be portable to use which means you can access your file located on your pen drive in secure ways.

Steps:

Step1: First you need to have the following tools

  • 1.   8GB + USB Drive
  • 2.   Kali-Linux
  • 3.   Win32 Disk Imager
  • 4. MiniTool Partition Wizard

Download Links

Kali Linux: Click me to download

Partition Tool: Click me to download

Win32 Disk Imager: click me to download

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step2: After you download all files connect your USB to your computer.

Step3: Now open the setup file of win32 Disk Imager software and install it.

Step4: open your win32 disk imager. It looks like this.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step5: now locate your kali Linux image file that you downloaded last time. and select your image file.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step6: Setup your drive name. as my pen drive is [G:\] device.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step7: remember that your pen drive must be formatted in FAT32 if not then format your pen drive.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step8: come back to the win32 disk image and click on write, after that you will get a warning message that will confirm overwrite, then click on yes. After that, your Linux image will start to load in your Pen Drive.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step9: will start to load the kali Linux image file on your pen drive, Note: this process can take more time.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step10: if completed then it shows like this. Then click on ok. And exit.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step11: now install your partition wizard. After you install a partition wizard software. Lunch that application.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step12: After you open you will see the three partitions that we created from win32 disk image software.

Step13: now in unallocated, right-click on it and click on create. After that, you will get a warning message to continue and click on yes.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step14: in creating as select primary. We will create this partition as primary. The select file system as Ext4. In partition label: persistence. After all of that changes click on ok.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step15: After that click on apply and click on yes this will start changing your partition.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step16: To complete this process may take 10 to 15min.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step17: after complete apply changes on the partition. Close your all program because now you need to restart your computer.

Step18: Now boot your system from USB. In the boot menu, I will select my USB pen drive.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step19: Click on Live USB Persistence. This will start to boot your Kali Linux.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step20: the partition that we created last time had been mounted as you can see in the below picture.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step21: Open your terminal windows.

Step22: in command type fdisk -l. this will check the disk partition.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step23: my pen drive is /dev/sdb3. Now we will create a directory.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step24: type mkdir -p /mnt/name. in name, you can select any random name as you like.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step25: type mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/myhult/. Remember that mount your pen drive as in my case /dev/sdb3 but in your case, that may be different. In /mnt/myhult/ I enter because last time I name it as myhult.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step26: type mount echo “/union” > /mnt/name/persistence.conf.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step27: type unmount /dev/sdb3. In sdb3 type your partition name.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step28: I will show you that we create a config file. Open that persistence.conf file. There must be the same that we write last time as a union. If not written then that may not work.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step29:  reboot your system. You can just type the command on the terminal as a reboot.

Step30: boot your computer from a pen drive. Select the same boot menu that we select last time > live USB persistence one.

Step31: now check whether is really working or not I will just create one folder on the desktop and also, change my desktop wallpaper. Now reboot your system.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

Step32: now again boot your system from live USB persistence. We will see if the last time we changed will be saved or not.

Step33: I checked that it’s working.

Make fully loaded Persistent | Kali Linux Live USB

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