pen testing installations what goes first
by notbob11 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6KR4C)
Sadly, pen testing support is not the best. So here I am.
I would like to get into pen testing. I am a slow learner, but I do learn.
I have some computers, 2 MS surface pro 3, 3 or 4 laptops (one running early Windows), and two desktops. One desktop is pretending to be a server, and rarely gets a monitor, the other has 5 hard drives.
I use mostly Linux, started with Red Hat, switched to Debian 9 (stretch). Deb 10, 11, 12 messed up some apps in Wine, so I stayed primitive until recently, when the repositories petrified. Now I am experimenting with different distros.
A couple of the devices have Windows 10 squished into the least space possible. I still have stuff that only works on them.
Everything can connect to the local net, mostly ethernet, but some wireless too.
I installed Kali on the hard drive of a Lenovo ideapad 330
What I can't figure out is where to install VMware-Player or VirtualBox. I assume Bare Metal means directly into their own partitions on a hard disk. That makes them OSs in their own right.
But one can also install the virtual software within a given OS, I think. That makes it an application, so to speak.
What is the best way to get started? I think maybe two machines set up at first, then I could expand as I get deeper into it.
Thanks in advance.
I would like to get into pen testing. I am a slow learner, but I do learn.
I have some computers, 2 MS surface pro 3, 3 or 4 laptops (one running early Windows), and two desktops. One desktop is pretending to be a server, and rarely gets a monitor, the other has 5 hard drives.
I use mostly Linux, started with Red Hat, switched to Debian 9 (stretch). Deb 10, 11, 12 messed up some apps in Wine, so I stayed primitive until recently, when the repositories petrified. Now I am experimenting with different distros.
A couple of the devices have Windows 10 squished into the least space possible. I still have stuff that only works on them.
Everything can connect to the local net, mostly ethernet, but some wireless too.
I installed Kali on the hard drive of a Lenovo ideapad 330
What I can't figure out is where to install VMware-Player or VirtualBox. I assume Bare Metal means directly into their own partitions on a hard disk. That makes them OSs in their own right.
But one can also install the virtual software within a given OS, I think. That makes it an application, so to speak.
What is the best way to get started? I think maybe two machines set up at first, then I could expand as I get deeper into it.
Thanks in advance.