Building Kali Linux for Intel Edison

This documentation goes though the process of manually building a base Kali Linux image for the Intel Edison board. These steps were derived from frankensteining the edison build scripts for Debian Jessie and some of the Kali Linux ARM build scripts. All of the content from this post can be found in my github repo for this project here, along with pre compiled images (coming soon!) and ansible scripts for automated building.

Note, all of these steps were tested in Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x64 LTS. As of this writing, this OS/Version has the most support for doing Edison source builds. I have done these steps in other operating systems, but the process is not as clean due to bugs, script tweaks, etc.

This post is part of a three part series which will cover all of the following:
1. Manually building and installing Kali Linux for Intel Edison
2. Automatically building Kali Linux for Intel Edison with ansible
3. Downloading and installing precompiled images

This is the first post of the series and will cover the method for manually building Kali Linux images for Intel Edison. Stay tuned for followup posts...

Building Debian Linux for Intel Edison

This documentation goes though the process of building a base Debian Linux image via simple make files for the Intel Edison board. The make file method for building Debian images is very similar to my last post for building Yocto images from Intels make file method. The make files provided by Intel in the BSP Edison source package wrap the build process with scripts to make building an extremely simple process.

Using Make for Easy Yocto Builds On Intel Edison

This documentation goes though the process of building a Yocto Linux image via simple make files for the Intel Edison board. The make file method for building Yocto images is much simpler than the manual build methods. The make files provided by Intel in the BSP Edison source package wrap the build process with scripts to make building an extremely simple process.

Manually Building Yocto Images for the Intel Edison Board from Source

This documentation goes though the process of manually building a Yocto Linux image for the Intel Edison hardware. The build techniques used here do not use the easier make file method which is now available in the Intel Edison Board Support Package (BSP) source. For documentation on building via the make file method, I will do a follow up post which explains that process in detail.

The manual build method used in this documentation allows for easier customization of the base Yocto image. Customizations can include tweaks such as changing the base kernel, adding extra kernel modules, adding base application packages, etc.