I have been using BalenaEtcher to burn Kali to a stick which I can just work off, however upon the finish I just a failed message and then a warning that the checksum is wrong. I dont understand why or how this happens.
cant burn Kali linux to a live boot stick
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Did you check your download to make sure it was good?
Try a different stick they do go bad sometimes.
Try a different stick they do go bad sometimes.
I would also advise that Kali is not for those new to Linux if your not experienced with Linux Kali is not the right distro for you.'
How to Verify a Linux ISO’s Checksum and Confirm It Hasn’t Been Tampered With
Last month, Linux Mint’s website was hacked, and a modified ISO was put up for download that included a backdoor. While the problem was fixed quickly, it demonstrates the importance of checking Linux ISO files you download before running and installing them. Here’s how.www.howtogeek.com
I have used Linux before, used Mint and Zorin. I have burned to sticks before (not live boot though) not had issues, how can there be a problem with the checksum issue if i got it directly off the website?
Condobloke
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it simply tells you that the download is corrupted in some way. Experience will tell you that. (either that or your usb stick is kaput)
Download it via a torrent file
Download it via a torrent file
Well downloads can be bad too. So re download and check the checksum before burning.
Condobloke
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The various 'genuine websites' also advise you check the checksum etc and provide you with the means to do so
USB stick is brand new out the box
I got them off the same site I always do, not some random one, unless thats been highjacked.
was the checksum good? Try a different iso burner.
https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-platforms this one and gone for the live boot option. There does not appear to be any other places anyway that are not just "free download here" that I wont touch.
Brickwizard
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The slightest glitch in transmission across thousands of miles of cable and through multiple servers can cause a corruption to happen, it isn't often but nonetheless does happen, try downloading again when your location is at its lowest usage [late night/early morning]
wow, thats crazy
Brickwizard
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Why how much cable would you need [and connections] to connect just to your regular sites, Packet routing is the quickest although complicated way,
As an example, If i want to connect to a company server in the US it may look something like this my computer>my router my isp server> international server> government monitoring servers> national routing server> regional routing server> target US server,
learn a bit more... search international routing
Creating live USB from ISO with dd command
Here’s the example with Linux Mint 22 and the command for flashing of the ISO:
where /dev/sdX the X is where your USB is actually located such as sdc or sdb and so forth - you can use the lsblk command in the terminal to find out your USB Location
Here’s the example with Linux Mint 22 and the command for flashing of the ISO:
where /dev/sdX the X is where your USB is actually located such as sdc or sdb and so forth - you can use the lsblk command in the terminal to find out your USB Location
CaffeineAddict
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@GatorsFan
Question, why is
I understand the later also writes metadata, but why is that needed? will boot loader complain if metadata is missing?
Question, why is
fsync needed, why not just fdatasync?I understand the later also writes metadata, but why is that needed? will boot loader complain if metadata is missing?
There is really not much difference between the two except for how each cache's the files; fsync guarantees that the file's modification time will be updated, fdatasync does not; it guarantees only that the file's data will be written. This means that in principal, fdatasync can execute faster than fsync because it needs to force only one disk write instead of two that fsync does. I just prefer fsync because of this
That is a wise thought. I'll give a couple of further options.
https://distrowatch.com/
many of the options there take you through sourceforge to download, which is reliable. You can also read Linux news there, reviews and so on.
We have a downloads page here
https://www.linux.org/pages/download/
and it links to current safe sites, let us know of any broken or obsolete links.
Wiz
