We will flash the image file using dd utility tool. Most of Linux distribution and mac OS comes with pre-loaded dd utility. Then it complete the process, and our Live bootable USB is ready. This will take some time to flash image file depending on our computer's speed. Now open Etcher tool and the we select the downloaded image file and then we select the USB flash drive where we want to write the image file and click on flash. After installing this we plug our pen drive on pc (make sure we don't have plugged any other USB flash drive, be cause if we select wrong USB drive then we may wipe other flash drive).

We need to download Etcher we can install it on Windows as we install other software. In this tutorial we are going to use Etcher tool. If we are using a Windows pc to write Kali Linux on USB, then we need some special software.

This process can be done from Windows or Linux/mac OS. We need to write the image file on our USB flash drive. We are downloading the latest 64 bit version of Kali Linux image file.ĭownloading Kali Linux from official websiteĪfter downloading the image file. A high speed USB pen drive (minimum 8GB).įirst we need to download Kali Linux image file from it's official website.Next, we need to create some partitions on our USB drive. Once we have our USB device ready, we can now move onto the next step 6. status – It prints the transfer statistics, which in this case is directed by the progress flag.oflag – Instruct the dd command on how to write to image based on passed flag values, in this case we have passed the value sync which effectively syncs after each output block.bs – Byte size, i.e, number of BYTES to read/write to at a time, which in our case is 4M.of – File to write to, which in this case is our block device /dev/sdb.if – File to read from which in this case is our ISO file :.dd – This is our disk destroyer command.Let’s explain the parts of this command : Here we have used the very dangerous dd command, aka the disk destroyer command. $ sudo dd if= of=/dev/sdb bs=4M oflag=sync status=progress

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