parrot iso advanced options

[kedaar]

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When booting fron a live usb, there are advanced options.

For encrypted persistence, it says you need advanced configuration. Is there any documentation on how to use the love iso advanced options?

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• ParrotOS iso in use:

parrot home 5.0.1

• Application used for flashing the iso:
  balena etcher

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[Masmer (Masmer Snerd)]

@kedaar

For encrypted persistence

There are two ways to do this. The first one is a bit complicated and the instructions while written for Kali also works for Parrot.

Creating An Encrypted Persistent Live Kali USB - LinuxForDevices

The second way is to use VirtualBox to install Parrot directly onto the USB drive as if installing to a hard disk. Just make sure to install the MBR to the USB drive.

Skip grub menu and boot in persistence mode by default

Hi @witt_the Using VirtualBox, boot up the Live Parrot ISO. Plug in your USB drive and have the Parrot guest OS recognize the drive via VirtualBox’s Devices menu => USB Settings. Install Parrot onto the USB drive as if it were an actual hard drive. Make sure you select the USB drive for Grub to be installed on. Power off the PC and boot off the USB drive which will now be fully persistent. Do a sudo parrot-upgrade then a sudo apt install grub-customizer When installed, launch Grub Customizer and go to the General settings tab. Uncheck “show menu” and “look for other operating systems”, and then change the “Boot default entry after” to 0 seconds. Click the Save icon, then from the File menu select “Install to MBR…”

[kedaar]

Few questions

1. I assume that “encrypted persistence” option in the live ISO is useful after you follow the kali instructions you gave?

2)if I follow the kali steps you gave, can I still boot it all to RAM? Or is this only possible with non-persistent ISO?

3. If I create the persistent encrypted usb, can i still do a basic load of the ISO without encrypted persistence just by selecting “try/install”?

[Masmer (Masmer Snerd)]

1. I haven’t tried it, but I assume that like Kali’s live encryption option when boot off of is the same as how Parrot’s work.

2. The first method allows you the option to boot into the live CD without persistence (just RAM). As of a few Kali versions ago, the Live ISO does not have an installer as they have separated the Live and Install into two different ISOs. I believe booting into Parrot install using the Kali link’s method would allow the USB to be a Live installer and/or a persistent install.

3. My second method using VirtualBox just makes a bootable, encrypted, fully persistent install. When you boot off the USB, it will first ask for the encryption password before showing the Grub2 menu to boot into the (updatable) full distro.

[kedaar]

Once I have the encrypted persistent USB working with the Kali method mentioned, is it possible to boot the encrypted persistent USB to ram?

[Masmer (Masmer Snerd)]

Not that I know of. I’d do method #1 to allow either boot into default Live mode or encrypted persistence mode at the Grub menu.

I tried my method of installing Kali 2022.3 onto a thumb drive (using VirtualBox) and it didn’t work. I’ll try using an older Kali build later. (I’m near Tampa which is about to be hit by a hurricane = no power for possibly weeks.)

[kedaar]

Two quesitons:

1. Is there a way to remaster a live persistent encrypted usb to create a custom ISO like you can with MX linux?

2. If I cant remaster to create an ISO, is there a way to load a live encrypted usb to RAM?