How to Install DracOs Linux Using Rsync

How to Install DracOs Linux Using Rsync

DracOs Linux is one of the Linux distributions that is intended specifically for the purposes of penetration testing and security. This distribution is artificial developers homeland led by Ziko Ekel as chairman projects.

DracOs is not a result remaster or based on another distribution, DracOs was developed from Linux From The Scratch (LFS). DracOs has hundreds pentesting tools, forensics, malware analysis and reverse engineering.

All tools it uses Command Line Interface (CLI) in carrying out its operations, so as to make the user understand every process carried out.

Preparing to Install DracOs Linux Using Rsync

Before starting to install, make sure you have prepared the requirements and provided the following materials:

1. DracOs Linux iso file, which can be found on the official DracOs Linux website directly
2. Available Harddisk free space at least 15 Giga Bytes (GB)
3. Other Linux distributions that are already installed on the computer, can be Kali Linux, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Parrot, BackBox or others. To follow this tutorial, it is better to use the aforementioned Debian or Ubuntu derivatives. In this tutorial author using Parrot Security OS.

Steps to Install DracOs Linux Using Rsync

Login to the Linux distribution already installed on the device. Prepare the partition as the location for the DracOS installation. Create a partition with a minimum size of 15 Giga Bytes (GB). Set or convert the partition format as ext4 file system. The result is something like the image below, remember the name of the device on the partition, in the image below the device name of the partition is /dev/sda17.

Partition For DracOs Installation

You can use Gparted which is already available online default on Kali Linux, Debian, Parrot, or use existing Disks Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or other applications to be used to manage partitions.

Then install tools or the following required dependencies. On Ubuntu and Linux Mint, usually both dependencies are installed automatically. If not already installed, install the two dependencies with the following command.

apt-get install squashfs-tools

apt-get install rsync

Install Rsync

Install Squash-tools

*Note: Use the sudo command if you are not logged in as the root user

Then create 3 folders needed for installation using rsync (iso-dracos, dracos, squash) in the /mnt folder with the following command.

mkdir -p /mnt/{iso-dracos,dracos,squash}

Creating Folders For DracOs Installation

Mount the partition that was prepared previously as the DracOs installation partition into the /mnt/dracos/ directory with the following command. Replace “/dev/sda17” in the command with the name of the device partition that you have prepared.

mount -t ext4 /dev/sda17 /mnt/dracos/

Mount Partition For DracOs Installation

Mount the DracOs iso that you have prepared into the /mnt/iso-dracos/ folder with the following command. Adjust the command to the location of the DracOs iso folder that you will mount, or just place it in the /home folder for convenience.

mount DracOs.iso /mnt/iso-dracos/

Mount ISO DracOs

Then after successfully mount the DracOS iso, remount the “root.sfs” file located in /mnt/iso-dracos/boot/i686/ or /mnt/iso-dracos/boot/x86_64/ (according to the dracOS iso) to the / folder min/squash/.

Previously, make sure the DracOS iso file that you downloaded earlier is 32 bit (i686) or 64 bit (x86_64).

For iso files 32 bit (i686) use the following command.

mount -t squashfs /mnt/iso-dracos/boot/i686/root.sfs /mnt/squash/

As for iso files 64 bit (x86_64), use the following command.

mount -t squashfs /mnt/iso-dracos/boot/x86_64/root.sfs /mnt/squash/

Mount File root.sfs

After successful, then do rsync with the following command. Process rsync This will take some time, just wait until the process is complete.

After the process is complete, the result is as shown below.

Result of Rsync process

Then update GRUB so that DracOS is read in GRUB with the following command:

update-grub && update-grub2

Update Grub

Make sure GRUB finds the DracOS system and partition as shown above.

In some cases on Linux Mint and Ubuntu, the system asks to do grub-mkconfig or update the GRUB file, type the following command:

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

If DracOS was found during the GRUB update process, then the installation was successful. Then reboot or restart the computer, and enter DracOS.

After successfully booting into DracOs, login using the user “root” and the password “toor”.
To enter the Desktop on Dracos, simply type the following command:

startx