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English Preparing a Kali Linux ARM chroot
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اﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ Although you can download Kali ARM images from our Download area, some prefer building
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their own updated boostraped Kali rootfs. The following procedure shows an example of building
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a Kali armhf rootfs. Change to armel if needed.
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Install Required Tools and Dependencies
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apt-get install debootstrap qemu-user-static
00. Introduction to Kali Linux
01. Downloading Kali Linux
02. Building Custom Kali Images Define Architecture and Custom Packages
03. Installing Kali Linux This is where you define some environment variables for your required ARM architecture (armel
04. Kali Linux Network Installs vs armhf) and list the packages to be installed in your image. These will be used throughout this
article, so make sure to modify them to your needs.
05. Kali Linux General Use
06. Kali Linux ARM Architecture export packages="xfce4 kali-menu wpasupplicant kali-defaults initramfs-tools uboot-mkimage nmap openssh-ser
export architecture="armhf"
07. Kali Linux Development
08. Troubleshooting Kali Linux
09. Kali Community Support
Build the Kali rootfs
10. Kali Linux Policies
We create a standard directory structure and bootstrap ARM rootfs from the Kali Linux
repositories. We then copy over qemu-arm-static from our host machine into the rootfs in order
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to initiate the 2nd stage chroot.
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cd ~
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mkdir -p arm-stuff
cd arm-stuff/
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mkdir -p kernel
mkdir -p rootfs
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cd rootfs
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cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static kali-$architecture/usr/bin/
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2nd Stage chroot
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This is where we configure base image settings such as keymaps, repositories, default network
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cd ~/arm-stuff/rootfs
LANG=C chroot kali-$architecture /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
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deb [Link] kali main contrib non-free
deb [Link] kali/updates main contrib non-free
EOF
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echo "kali" > kali-$architecture/etc/hostname
cat << EOF > kali-$architecture/etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
EOF
cat << EOF > kali-$architecture/etc/[Link]
nameserver [Link]
EOF
3rd Stage chroot
This is where your customization comes in. Your $packages are installed and a default “toor” root
password is set as well as other configuration changes and fixes.
export MALLOC_CHECK_=0 # workaround for LP: #520465
export LC_ALL=C
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
mount -t proc proc kali-$architecture/proc
mount -o bind /dev/ kali-$architecture/dev/
mount -o bind /dev/pts kali-$architecture/dev/pts
cat << EOF > kali-$architecture/[Link]
console-common console-data/keymap/policy select Select keymap from full list
console-common console-data/keymap/full select en-latin1-nodeadkeys
EOF
cat << EOF > kali-$architecture/third-stage
#!/bin/bash
dpkg-divert --add --local --divert /usr/sbin/[Link] --rename /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
cp /bin/true /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
apt-get update
Manual Configuration Within the chroot
apt-get install locales-all
#locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
If needed, you can perform any final modifications in your rootfs environment by manually
debconf-set-selections /[Link]
chrooting into it and making any necessary last changes.
LANG=C chroot kali-$architecture
{make additional changes within the chroot}
exit
Cleanup
Lastly, we run a cleanup script in our chroot to free up space used by cached files and run any
other cleanup jobs we may require:
cat << EOF > kali-$architecture/cleanup
#!/bin/bash
rm -rf /root/.bash_history
apt-get update
apt-get clean
rm -f cleanup
EOF
chmod +x kali-$architecture/cleanup
LANG=C chroot kali-$architecture /cleanup
umount kali-$architecture/proc
umount kali-$architecture/dev/pts
umount kali-$architecture/dev/
cd ..
Congratulations! Your custom Kali ARM rootfs is located in the kali-$architecture directory. You
can now tar up this directory or copy it to an image file for further work.
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