arch-kali-rpi2

The build scripts for Kali image of Raspberry Pi 2, supports both Debian & Arch Linux.

Build

You may compile the kali image for Raspberry Pi 2 in one step:

git clone https://github.com/yhfudev/arch-kali-rpi2.git
cd arch-kali-rpi2
sudo ./runme.sh

You may want to run above commands in a virtual machine by user root, otherwise you may be annoyed by the sudo command :-)

Install

Install to SD card by:

dd bs=4M if=src/kali-rpi2-image-1.1.0-armhf.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 && sync

Speeding up writing image

If you install following tools in your build host before compiling the image, you'll get a compressed image file and bmap config file, and you may speed up writing the image file to a SD card:

apt-get install bsdtar bmap-tools pixz

To install the image file to your SD card:

sudo bmaptool copy kali-rpi2-image-1.1.0-armhf.img.xz /dev/mmcblk0

Backup your SD card

You may backup your SD card content after you changed it. After you insert the SD card to your Linux box:

umount /run/media/${USER}/BOOTFS/
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /run/media/${USER}/rootfs/boot/firmware/
cd /run/media/${USER}/rootfs/
./backup.sh

Restore the backuped files:

# delete the second partition and re-create it from the rest of device

# format the SD card
mkfs.vfat -n BOOTFS /dev/mmcblk0p1
mkfs.ext4 -L rootfs /dev/mmcblk0p2
# mount
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfs
mkdir -p rootfs/boot/firmware
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 rootfs/boot/firmware
cd rootfs
tar -xvf ~/rpi2-kali-base-20160126.tgz

Config

You may be also interest in config or install other packages after booting the Kali: (user "root" login with password "toor")

# expanded the image to the full size
apt-get install parted sudo
/scripts/rpi-wiggle.sh

# Full Kali Linux build
apt-get update
apt-get install kali-linux-full

# setup ssh server
apt-get install openssh-server
update-rc.d -f ssh remove
update-rc.d -f ssh defaults
rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
service ssh restart

Features

• Supports the latest Raspberry Pi 2
• Fix X window frozen problem caused by kernel module mismatch
• automatically download and install prerequisites
• automatically download, setup, and cache source/tool trees
• Supports dpkg cache, so you won't wait after the first run of this software
• Supports multiple linux distributions, such Debian, Arch (or Redhat, not test yet)

That's all. Have fun!