L in u X ba sics for h acke rs g e t t I n g s t a r t e d w I t h

Introduction
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Figure 15: Entering your device manually
On the following screen, select the drive where the GRUB bootloader 
should be installed (it will likely be something like /dev/sda). Click through to 
the next screen, which should tell you that the installation is complete.
Congratulations! You’ve installed Kali. Click 
Continue
. Kali will 
attempt to reboot, and you will see a number of lines of code go across 
a blank, black screen before you are eventually greeted with Kali 2018’s 
login screen, as shown in Figure 16.
Figure 16: The Kali login screen

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Introduction
Log in as root, and you will be asked for your password. Enter whatever 
password you selected for your root user.
After logging in as root, you will be greeted with the Kali Linux desktop, 
as in Figure 17.
Figure 17: The Kali home screen
You are now ready to begin your journey into the exciting field of 
hacking! Welcome!

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G E T T I N G S TA R T E D W I T H 
T H E B A S I C S
By our very nature, hackers are doers. We 
want to touch and play with things. We 
also want to create and, sometimes, break 
things. Few of us want to read long tomes of 
information technology theory before we can do what 
we love most: hacking. With that in mind, this chapter 
is designed to give you some fundamental skills to get 
you up and running in Kali . . . now!
In this chapter, we won’t go into any one concept in great detail—we’ll 
cover just enough to let you play and explore in the operating system of 
hackers: Linux. We will save more in-depth discussions for later chapters.

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