Raspberry Pi is an affordable ARM computer. It is extremely small in size which makes it portable, and because of which it's best suited for Kali Linux-like systems to perform pentesting with portable devices.
In this recipe, you will learn about installing a Kali Linux image on a Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi supports SD cards. The best way to set up Kali on Raspberry Pi is to create a bootable SD card and insert it into Pi.
To install Kali on Raspberry Pi follow the given steps:
- We will first download the image from Offensive Security's website at https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-arm-images/:
- Once the image is downloaded, we can use different ways to write this image into our memory card.
- On Linux/macOS, it can be done using the
dd
utility. Thedd
utility can be used using the following command:
dd if=/path/to/kali-2.1.2-rpi.img of=/dev/sdcard/path bs=512k
- Once this process completes, we can plug the SD card into the Pi and...