Dual bootable to live run Kali and/or Mint HELP

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kidkyle17

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i am trying to create a dual boot usb flash drive to run either Kali or Mint live off the usb

so far i have partitioned the (16G) drive in half (7.46G) each
Kali is running on the L side and I have assigned M to the other side
This is where i have issues the windows programs will not reconize the M side of the drive
how ever at start up when entering into the boot menu it sees both side of a separate disk
the one side will boot Kali and the other just dont do anything (cause nothing is there ) obviously

but when i go to write the ISO file to the M side the universal usb program and Rufus only can see the L side
 
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1. Windows will not recognize multiple partitins on a single USB stick. Was never meant for that.

2. Kali itself is not meant to be "installed". Rather a bootable environment, to access some pen testing and forensic tools.


Easy solution?
2 different USB sticks. Tie them together with a ziptie.
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skittle

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Boot_loaders

Have to say though you got no business running Kali of you can't figure out how to boot it.
 
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i am able to mount and run Kali and Mint what i and having trouble with is getting the PC to recognize my USB as two different drives that i can mount each OS on

please, though admittedly i am a armature if your not going to be helpful i would prefer you condensation be kept to yourself i am only trying to learn not do dumb stuff

 
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Sorry but Kali is a distribution designed for professionals not beginners. Dual booting a live usb with syslinux or other bootloader has been solved for 20+ years. Nobody here wants to spoon feed you the info. You can easily find 100's of ways to achieve what you want with a simple search on Google
 
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1. Windows will not recognize multiple partitins on a single USB stick. Was never meant for that.

2. Kali itself is not meant to be "installed". Rather a bootable environment, to access some pen testing and forensic tools.


Easy solution?
2 different USB sticks. Tie them together with a ziptie.
 
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Rocky Bennett

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For laughs and giggles I did it once.

http://multibootusb.org/
 
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thank you! that is really all i am doing is seeing what i can do i have a old PC that i am messing with instead of putting a ssd in i'm just playing around and putting OS's on usb and seeing how them perform and i have a much newer PC that i actually use
lastly i did come a cross that program but i thought it was some <mod edit> bloatware program

<Moderator Warning: Watch your language in these forums>
 
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