October 2014 - luv-beginners

boot problems...Yay!
by Scott Junner 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

"This is all very good, the more mistakes I make the more I learn" he repeated to himself over and over again like wild eyed crazy man pacing up and down the lost halls of a forgotten mental asylum. For a while there I had something working. It was really cool, I was happy and free, my hair flowing behind me blown up by the magical breeze emanating from the cooling fan of my computer tower. I'd managed to dual boot Kali Linux along side Windows. The problem I had was that I was not able to get the two screens working as a single display. That is to say I was seeing double. I read the instructions on this page http://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux in an attempt to solve that problem. I knew it was a graphics card driver problem because when I went to the 'displays' section of the system settings the display showed as unknown and only showed one rather than two. After following the instructions to reboot I now get [...] Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...udevd[512]: specified group 'pcscd' unknown during the boot into Kali-Linux. And that's where the computer stays. Any ideas? Scott.

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Re: [luv-beginners] luv-beginners Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7
by Rohan Krishnadev 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hi, I'm pretty sure there's option for ISO download. I've been using a dual booted Dell XPS 15z with Kali and Windows 8.1 for quite some time now. With Regards, Rohan Krishnadev. (Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.) On 22-Oct-2014 12:00 pm, <luv-beginners-request(a)luv.asn.au> wrote: > Send luv-beginners mailing list submissions to > luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-beginners > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > luv-beginners-request(a)luv.asn.au > > You can reach the person managing the list at > luv-beginners-owner(a)luv.asn.au > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of luv-beginners digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Kali-Linux (Scott Junner) > 2. Re: [Bulk] Kali-Linux (dan062@yahoo) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:06:53 +1100 > From: Scott Junner <scott.junner(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [luv-beginners] Kali-Linux > To: luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au > Message-ID: > < > CAFOXg3WpQ5pTAHy3EK4wZjtFqdkKY8nNSzR8vVemnApa9PmcJw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I still haven't managed to get Linux installed on a separate partition on > my desktop. I can get it to go through the process to a point, then it > freezes up and I boot back to windows to try and figure out why. > > For now that's another story. > > While I'm reading stuff, I've come across Kali -Linux, which is very > interesting and confusing. On the downloads page it only seems to have a > download for VMWare (amd64). Does this mean I have to run VMWare and then > install Kali-Linux as a virtual machine within...say...Windows, or is there > a way to install it as the Primary OS? Is that even a good idea? I don't > get it? What's this thing with VMWare? > > By extension, does this also mean that when PenTesting a virtual machine > like Metasploitable I end up with a Virtual Machine within a Virtual > Machine. This is getting a little like a nightmare strait out of > 'Inception'. Surely this can't be right. > > Cheers > Scott >

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Kali-Linux
by Scott Junner 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

I still haven't managed to get Linux installed on a separate partition on my desktop. I can get it to go through the process to a point, then it freezes up and I boot back to windows to try and figure out why. For now that's another story. While I'm reading stuff, I've come across Kali -Linux, which is very interesting and confusing. On the downloads page it only seems to have a download for VMWare (amd64). Does this mean I have to run VMWare and then install Kali-Linux as a virtual machine within...say...Windows, or is there a way to install it as the Primary OS? Is that even a good idea? I don't get it? What's this thing with VMWare? By extension, does this also mean that when PenTesting a virtual machine like Metasploitable I end up with a Virtual Machine within a Virtual Machine. This is getting a little like a nightmare strait out of 'Inception'. Surely this can't be right. Cheers Scott

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Black screen of born-dead
by Scott Junner 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hey luv. I've recently installed linux (openSUSE) on my laptop, Yay. It works, Yay. And now I'm trying to install linux on my brand spanking new, you beaut, ridgy didge desktop computer and I get nothing. I mean nothing. Zero feedback, except for nothing which in some philosophical circles is still considered something. But frankly philosophers are not going to help me here. What I did: 1. while in windows, download 'openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso' from the openSUSE website. 2. Insert blank DVD into DVD drive. 3. double left click on file which opens Nero dialogue box all ready to burn .iso file onto a DVD. 4. click the burn button, wait, done, success. 5. restart computer What happens same each time: 1. computer starts up 2. DVD drive engages 3. DVD drive winds up 4. nothing. 5. blank screens (x2) I've walked a way from the computer and left it some room to think about what it's doing. Time did not seem to improve the state of nothingness. Thanks for your help if you can. Scott.

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