Now you will not get CD-ROM detect and mount error.Once your USB is ready, plug it in and start the installation.
No matter what software you use for writing the Kali iso to USB, you need to do it via DD mode.As soon as you hit the Start button, rufus will detect that the selected ISO image is ISOHybrid type and gives you two ways of writing this image to USB.Rufus will auto detect your USB drive, just make sure right device is selected, then select the kali iso image and click on Start button.You can download and use rufus to write the bootable kali iso image onto your USB drive. Solution 2:įor this, you will need to re-format your USB device. If above steps do not work for you, you can follow the next solution. Hopefully, your system will now detect and mount the CDROM since you manually mounted it this time.You need to start over Just highlight the first option i.e. You will get back to the list of installer menu with various options.
(see the following image for all the commands)
Make sure you adjust the device name noted in first step Type “ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 cdrom” command.If you do not get anything, you can skip the next command but if you get an error like “No such file or directory”, continue to next command. Now type “ ls cdrom” command without quotes.You will need these two things to manually mount the USB. First, to determine the block ID of USB drive, use the “ blkid” command without quotes.Usually it is the last option in the list.From here, we will manually mount our bootable USB to cdrom directory so the installer can continue. You will get a terminal window where you can execute commands.Navigate and select “ Execute a shell” option and click on Continue twice. Now you will see an installer menu with various options.You will see an installation step failed page but that is okay, just click on Continue.On “ Retry mounting the CD-ROM?” option, select the No and click Continue.