Kali 2025.1

[CaffeineAddict]

My hard disk has 500GB total and divided by three partitions are about 166 GB per partition, which depends on the software you install.

I also have 500GB SSD but 160GB per system is too little for me, only games require that much.

Depending on the total space of the hard disk I think it is better to dual boot two Linux operating systems (and not three)

2 maximum, but I won't be using dual boot, every free GB is welcome.

My recent work with wordlists required 100GB of free diskspace, games require 160GB, cloned repos some GB's too, etc. I just don't see dual boot as an option so won't be using it.

 

[Deleted member 155466]

I also have 500GB SSD but 160GB per system is too little for me, only games require that much.


2 maximum, but I won't be using dual boot, every free GB is welcome.

My recent work with wordlists required 100GB of free diskspace, games require 160GB, cloned repos some GB's too, etc. I just don't see dual boot as an option so won't be using it.

I should buy an external hard drive because the current 500GB of hard drive is not enough for three operating systems.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

I should buy an external hard drive because the current 500GB of hard drive is not enough for three operating systems.

If you want to use multiple OS's it's better to install 2nd SSD and have each OS use it's own SSD.
External drives are meant for storage.

I'll be getting 2nd 1TB SSD for OS, and keep current 500GB for work related stuff.
And HDD internal and external is there for storage and backups.

 

[Deleted member 155466]

I'm trying to use an old external drive 2TB:

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Thread 'My Book Essential WD (Western Digital) external drive on Linux'

Mar 18, 2025

I have a 2 TB My Book Essential WD (Western Digital) external drive (as new) I bought it many years ago for Windows and now I would like to use it with LInux. I tried several times to use it with LInux but it doesn't work, I had formatted it as fat 32 and then EXT4 and I wanted to install a Linux operating system making it bootable but without success.
In your opinion this external drive can be compatible with Linux?
Please can anyone give me some suggestions?

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[osprey]

Not an option because Debian testing still contains a lot of outdated packages.

Kali however doesn't use only testing packages, many of them are from upstream repos, mostly those which are out of date in testing.
I just see no better Debian based alternative that is also rolling-release.

You might consider the siduction distro. It's based on debian sid, is a genuine rolling release and with sid's offerings is usually quite up to date. When I've run it in the past, it's been flawless and is in active development. It's a community distro with debian values.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

You might consider the siduction distro. It's based on debian sid, is a genuine rolling release and with sid's offerings is usually quite up to date. When I've run it in the past, it's been flawless and is in active development. It's a community distro with debian values.

Thanks for suggestion, didn't know it exists.
But I'm already all in for Kali because being able to also install pentesting tools as needed is part of what's attractive to me.

 

[KGIII]

Moved to the Kali sub-forum.