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 Kali Linux for Gumstix Overo

This writeup goes over details on how to build and install a Kali Linux image for an Overo Gumstix board. The build notes and images in this post are for a stock Kali Linux OS configured for a Gumstix Overo device. The Kali image is configured for easy SSH network access over wired, wireless or USB when the Gumstix device is powered.

In order to create as Kali Linux device that resembled a USB dongle, I chose to use a Gumstix Overo Firestorm-P com with a Thumbo daughter board. The device is WiFi enabled and runs most pentest tools relatively well. As Gumstix devices are low resource ARM devices, there are obviously some CPU limitations, but considering the hardware, it runs great.