Therefore, select the empty USB disk that you want to use. You will see all the drives present on your system including the two USB disk – one which is working as an Installation medium and the other one that you want to use as a portable Kali Linux drive. Follow the guided installation wizard until you get the Disk Partition section- Step 6: Select USB disk drive to install KaliĪlthough you can manually partition your USB disk drive, however, if you are new to Linux, I recommend you to go for the “ Guided-use entire disk” option. To help the system to set your time zone properly, select the location where you reside currently, and then continue forward. Select the desired one and then click on the Continue button. The first thing it will ask you to do is Choose the Language for the OS.

However, the common ones are Esc, F7, or F12.Īs the Kali Boot Menu appears select the “ Graphical Install”. The key to open the Boot menu could be different according to your Motherboard. Reboot your system and open the boot menu and select the installation medium created in step 2 of this tutorial. Now, the USB drive you have created in the above step, insert that into the PC as well as the main USB (15 or 32 GB) where you want to install the Kali. Step 3: Boot PC with Kali USB Bootable medium Therefore, download BlaneEtcher to create a bootable drive on Windows, Linux, and macOS for Kali. however, as DVD discs are absolute now, thus the same has been shifted to USB drives.

Step 2: Create a bootable mediumĮarlier we were using CD/DVD to create a Linux installation medium. If you already have the ISO file of this Linux distribution then you can move to the next step, otherwise, go to the official website of Kali and download the latest version.

Windows, macOS, or Linux OS for creating a bootable installation medium.

(we will call it the Main USB, in this tutorial)

15 or 32 GB Pen Drive to install Kali Linux over it.

4GB USB Drive and Blane Etcher software to create Linux Bootable installation Media.

You will need the following things to perform this tutorial: The process of installing Kali Linux on USB will be the same for other Linux operating systems as well such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Linux Mint, etc. Step 6: Select USB disk drive to install Kali Install Kali Linux on USB Drive to create portable Linux OS

Kali live boot