Alright right sir ! Sounds good i was just dreading another full install lol, Took me ages to get an actual working copy of kali 2.0 back when i had it installed lol. Guess things have changed alot since then lol.
It seems the steps i took has resolved most of the errors fter a second runthrough of the same commans most of the install was completed.
@zzDopey, @All - good morning I am just on my 2nd coffee (for the benefit of the OP I come from DownUnder - Australia). My highlighting above.
Took me two years, lol, to get a working Kali up and running on the PC in the Garage, and then within weeks, that PC fell over (not because of the 40 Distros on it, it has been falling over for years). So today I will be attempting to install the 2017 Kali on the Toshiba Satellite in the Laundry - let's hope I hold my mouth the right way?
To make an antiquated analogy:
In the early Noughties, Mandrake was one of the pre-eminent RPM Distros. It ultimately languished, and a collaboration between them and a Distro known as Connectiva was forged, and Mandriva was the outcome (with Mageia forking off in a different direction). Nowadays we have OpenMandriva to show for it.
Wearing my best Spock hat "It's only logical "Jim", to have the cutting edge tools at your disposal, if you wish to pursue a vocation, a career, or even an active interest, in ethical hacking. If it is your ambition to help corporate entities, right down to the individual home user, to implement and maintain a safe and secure working environment, then to have less than the latest (stable) software on board would be folly".
Under the above premise, for me to perform pen testing on Mandrake would be a waste of time, other than to see if you could drive a Mack truck through the holes (vulnerabilities) exposed, just as it would be pointless to use a Kali from that time to examine one of today's products.
You, though are behind the steering wheel of your own PC, and so the choices are yours to be made.
Kali, if I am not mistaken, is based on Debian Wheezy, and Debian itself have released v9 "Stretch" recently (I have it onboard), but I do not see that as presenting problems.
If you like, I can drop a note here when I have installed the 2017 Kali, but it may be
you teaching
me where Kali is concerned, lol.
Cheers
Wizard