Getting ready

To get things started, let's look at the minimum hardware requirements that you will need to have in place to even get the product to install:

• Minimum of 10 GB hard drive space for the Kali OS
• For i386 and amd64 systems 512 MB of RAM
• CD/DVD drive or USB boot support
• An active internet connection is desirable

Again, keep in mind what is listed here represents the bare bones minimum and you will want to exceed these by as wide a margin as possible to ensure decent to excellent performance. Personally, I would recommend having at least 4 GB of RAM, if not more (I personally have 8 GB or 16 GB in the systems I use respectively, but I have used 4 GB of memory in the past and been fine).

You should also take care to note that the requirements for Kali are quite low, which would allow you to run the product quite well, even on computers that are several years old.