Running Kali from the live CD
Running Kali Linux from the live disk is best when you are doing forensics or recovery tasks. Some tools, such as OpenVAS will not work at all, because they have to be configured and file updates must be saved. You can't do this from the CD. One thing you can do very neatly from the live disk is to start up a computer without writing anything to the hard drive, and this is an important consideration when you are working on recovering files from the hard drive in question for forensic investigation.
To run Kali from the CD, just load the CD and boot from it. You will see the following screen. Note there are several options in booting live from the CD:
- Booting from the first option loads Kali complete with a working network ...
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