ISO as a tar file won't boot from dvd

dwalt · 11-02-2019, 01:26 AM

I downloaded Kali Linux iso and it is a tar file, any special prep required? I have never dealt with tar files before. The dvd refuses to boot. Want to dual boot with Mint until I study up on how to use Kali.

ondoho · 11-02-2019, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwalt

I downloaded Kali Linux iso and it is a tar file, any special prep required? I have never dealt with tar files before. The dvd refuses to boot. Want to dual boot with Mint until I study up on how to use Kali.

What exactly did you download (link) and did it not come with instructions?

BTW, the intended use is to run Kali live from a USB stick or similar.
Changing that means extra work for you, someone who apparently isn't very fluid in GNU/Linux anyhow.

dwalt · 11-02-2019, 03:13 AM

https://www.kali.org/downloads/
64bit iso

ondoho · 11-02-2019, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by dwalt

https://www.kali.org/downloads/
64bit iso

That ends in .iso for me.
Which link exactly (right-click => copy link location => paste here).
Also my other questions/suggestions.

teckk · 11-02-2019, 08:46 AM

Code:

wget --spider https://cdimage.kali.org/kali-2019.3/kali-linux-2019.3-amd64.iso
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2019-11-02 08:34:43--  https://cdimage.kali.org/kali-2019.3/kali-linux-2019.3-amd64.iso
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving cdimage.kali.org (cdimage.kali.org)... 192.99.200.113
Connecting to cdimage.kali.org (cdimage.kali.org)|192.99.200.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://kali.download/kali-images/kali-2019.3/kali-linux-2019.3-amd64.iso [following]
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2019-11-02 08:34:43--  https://kali.download/kali-images/kali-2019.3/kali-linux-2019.3-amd64.iso
Resolving kali.download (kali.download)... 104.18.102.100, 104.18.103.100, 2606:4700::6812:6764, ...
Connecting to kali.download (kali.download)|104.18.102.100|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3037736960 (2.8G) [application/octet-stream]

Looks like that is an .iso(disk image)

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I downloaded Kali Linux iso and it is a tar file

There are also bittorrent links on that page for a bittorent client.
Where did you get the .tar file from?

If you have a .tar file then untar it. Read man tar

What did you do? Burn a file.tar to DVD? That won't do anything but be a file disk.

You need to get a disk image(.iso) and burn it to disk.

Code:

curl https://cdimage.kali.org/kali-2019.3/kali-linux-2019.3-amd64.iso -o kali-linux-2019.3-amd64.iso
growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=8 -use-the-force-luke=tty -Z /dev/sr0=/path/kali-linux-2019.3-amd64.iso

See:
man tar
man curl
man wget
man growisofs