How can I achieve persistence with a Kali USB?

[michael_kent123]

Hello,

I am able to boot into the live version of Kali but cannot achieve persistence.

I follow http://docs.kali.org/installation/ka...sb-persistence changing where necessary (the .iso and location of my usb).

In Ubuntu 12.04, I run:

dd if=kali-linux-1.0.9-i386.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

My USB is on /dev/sdc.

I then can boot into Kali with no problems at start-up.

However, I then enter Ubuntu and run as root (after su):

size=5gb

read bytes _ < <(du -bcm /home/name/kali-linux-1.0.9-i386.iso |tail -1); echo $bytes parted /dev/sdc mkpart primary $bytes $size

mkfs.ext3 -L persistence /dev/sdc1

e2label /dev/sdc1 persistence

mkdir -p /mnt/my_usb

mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/my_usb

echo "/ union" > /mnt/my_usb/persistence.conf

umount /dev/sdc1

I then try to run Kali from boot and am informed that it "failed to load ldlinux.c32".

There are three directories on my USB: EFI, install, and live. I added ldlinux.c32 from http://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/ to EFI/BOOT but still received the same error.

Df after I've tried to add persistence shows:

/dev/sdc2 61682 58670 3012 96% /media/Kali Live

I am obviously doing something wrong. What? Many thanks!

Edited September 23, 2014 by michael_kent123

[barry99705]

Oddly enough they have a document for that!

http://docs.kali.org/installation/kali-linux-live-usb-persistence

[michael_kent123]

Oddly enough they have a document for that!

http://docs.kali.org...usb-persistence

Oddly enough, I referenced that link in the third line of my post.

[Mr-Protocol]

Since your question is Kali specific, I would suggest searching the Kali forums: http://forums.kali.org/

[cooper]

You're replacing the original partition. Quoting the referenced documentation link:

Create and format an additional partition on the USB stick. In our example, we create a 5 GB persistent partition and create a persistence.conf file on it.

Note the bold bit.

While performing the second sequence they're writing to a 3rd partition (/dev/sdb3) while you're writing to the 1st partition which is guaranteed to contain the stuff you just put there with the dd command and you were not supposed to remove.