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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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.
