Open Jeeppler opened 7 years ago
@Jeeppler, would you be willing to do this?
Yes, the moment I find the time for it.
As this has not happened as of yet (as far as I can see and I had a couple of issues when creating a Kali Template based on the Debian-9 Template I wanted to describe the issues I had when following instructions for customizing a Debian-9 Template without Katoolin as they are currently found at: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/pentesting/kali/#kali-linux-templatevm-from-a-debian-template--
The main problem (as far as I can tell) is that the instructions in Step 5 still include the steps of upgrading an older Debian-8 Template to 9 (which when run on Debian-9 makes the Template VM terminate after downloading a lot of things and then not being able to boot anymore).
I guess the steps that need to be excluded from the current version are:
For Step 5:
[user@kali-rolling ~]$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[user@kali-rolling ~]$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Possibly also the Trim Step 6:
[user@dom0 ~]$ qvm-shutdown kali-rolling
[user@dom0 ~]$ qvm-trim-template kali-rolling
And 7 (since we can expect the Terminal still to work [as there was no distupgrade necessary])
Then after growing the Kali Template VMs Storage I was able to successfully install the kali full package.
I would offer to do a pull request containing the changes mentioned above - but would like to receive some feedback on cutting steps 6 + 7.
@m4lu the entire document is pretty bloated. I will have a look in the next couple of days. With Debian 9 being available a lot has changed indeed. However, step 5 and 6 are still valid, things like step 4 can be removed.
The documentation for Kali Linux is out of date with the release of Debian 9 Stretch on the June 17^th. In addition, the fix for issue #2761 should be included in the documentation as well.