Thursday, September 03, 2015

raspi-config Missing On Kali Linux 2.0

A couple of months ago I purchased one of the shiny new RaspberryPi2's (you know, the one with the 900 Mhz quad core chip and the 1Gb of on-board ram) and have been playing with it.   Within the last couple of weeks, Kali Linux 2.0 was released.  Seeing as how I have this sweet RaspberryPi laying around, I figured, why not get Kali 2.0 running on it. 

So, for my birthday, my awesome wife got me a Class 10, 32Gb MicroSD card.  So I promptly loaded it with the freshly downloaded Kali Linux 2.0 image and booted it.  After logging in to the machine I did a 'df -h' and discovered that instead of the 32 Gb I expected to see (ok, so it would be 30Gb after reserve), I was only seeing around 7Gb of space.   I hadn't run into this quandry before as I had only had an 8gb card before. 

So, I did some googling and found that you can finagle the partition table with fdisk (which isn't installed by default, btw.  You will need to install the 'afflib-tools' package in order to get fdisk installed) and then reboot and resize the root partition.  Or, as a friend pointed out, you can simply run raspi-config and it will quickly (and quietly) do it for you. 

So I searched around and what do you know..... no raspi-config.  Apparently they don't see a need for this extremely useful utility on Kali, so you will need to install it yourself, which, after doing it, wasn't that awful.

First, download the latest version of raspi-config from  'http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/r/raspi-config'.  Just search in there and either click to download it, or, if you are like me, copy the link and wget it. Note: Remember to download the .deb file as this is a debian distribution.

Next, you need to install the two prerequisites for raspi-config:

  # apt-get install triggerhappy lua5.1

After you have installed those two, you can simply change directories to wherever you downloaded raspi-config and issue the following command:

  # dpkg -i .deb

After that, you should be able to run raspi-config.  The first option is to resize the partition to reclaim space on the card.  That is what you want.  It will tell you to reboot.  Once you do, voila!, space reclaimed and your 'df -h' should show a ton more space (relatively that is).

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

parsed.co notice

It was nice to have the parsed.co domain name attached to my block, but unfortunately the domain is a bit pricier to renew than what I initially paid for it.  That said, please know that I have not renewed it and you will have to access my blog though blogger itself, until I can get a new domain attached.

My sincere apologies for this change.   Hopefully I will have a new URL on here in the near future.


 
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