Installing Kali Linux 2020.2 on a VM and receiving an error during the initial install of the OS.
“Installation step failed” … “the failing step is: Select and install software”
If you are receiving this error, there could be a few causes, including no internet connection, bad install image, or most likely, your install drive is too small. Closeout of the running VM and go back to the machine settings. Increase the drive above 30GB. If you are using a dynamic size disk, make sure it too starts out of a default size above 30GB. The error is caused by the installer seeing that there is not enough free space to install the OS and erroring out.
At the time of writing this, the default size for Kali 2020.2 alone with basic install options is 25GB, not including a swap partition.
hi
I allot 10 GB Swap Area
and 60 GB HDD Partition.
after that This error is showing “Installation step failed” … “the failing step is: Select and install software”.
Hello Hemant, did you try a fresh install on that new HDD Partition also does the VM have an active internet connection? I have seen sometimes that causes some odd errors if it does not
I have this same error and cannot seem to get past it. I have allocated 2048MB for my memory and 40GB for the hard drive space. Is there any fix or suggestions? I have a screenshot as well but it looks just like your screenshot. Thanks
Hello Mark, did you try a fresh install on that new HDD Partition also does the VM have an active internet connection? I have seen sometimes that causes some odd errors if it does not
This worked great. Thanks!
I am facing same issue as mentioned above but i am installing kali linux as an dual boot with window 10 any fix ?
I think that a dynamically allocated 64.9 GB works for Kali Linux 2020.04 x64 Bit Installer.
i just got it to work, when installing the tools only install top ten ones, the live ones did not work when trying.
Thank you , this worked for me (after I plugged the ethernet into the home router).
Hi,
i am totally new to Linux and wanted to install Kali on my old HP laptop. I am currently facing the problem, you mentioned above and i can#t fix it. I have 240GB Samsung SSD built in and about 2 GB RAM. I am going crazy.
Thanks for your Help.
I’ve had the same issue. I was allocating 8GB for the HDD and it was raising the same error. Never realized that it could the the HDD space issue. Your post helped me resolve my issue. Thanks a lot.
Excellent! glad it helped.
I have the same problem mentioned above while installing debian. I have lenovo with 500GB and there is already 2 OS installed, Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. I just wanted to test out and use debian for a while so I allocated 50 gb which in turn set 1 gb for swap and rest 49 gb as main storage. Also my internet connection is connected and working. I looked up online everywhere for a fix but can’t find one. I would really be grateful if there is a fix for it. I am anyway gonna reinstall this once more and experiment and will surely reply to this if I find a solution.
Thank you for your help in advance
I fixed it by doing multiple changes at once. I don’t know which one of these changes fixed the problem but I will mention all of them here.
There are some points that I think might have been the problem (note: I am not sure which one was it nor am I pin pointing at a single one)
The first time when I booted Debian installer I hadn’t made an un allocated partition for the new OS beforehand so I had to do it in the installer, so what I did was split an existing drive and allocated 50 GB for Debian. (This could have been the problem)
The next thing that could’ve been the problem was when it asked network archive mirror, I selected continue without it.
The changes I made were these.
Before booting the installer the second time, I did some pre config. I booted up my Windows 10 and installed “Mini tool Partition Wizard” (which is pretty cool, I’ve been using it for a while and it always serves the purpose), and split and deleted partition here and there and set an un allocated partition, a full 60GB this time (Note: last time I only put 50GB but this time I increased 10GB. I don’t think there’s much difference but just incase). Btw this takes a bit time too. It will restart a couple times etc.
Now I booted the installer and did all the necessary and also pressed “yes” for the network archive mirror, selected “United States” (I don’t live there neither am I close to there but I was confused what to select and my country wasn’t listed). Then I selected deb.debian.org which was selected by default for me. And then the rest of the installation ran smoothly without any errors or bugs like selecting desktop environment, installing GRUB etc. (it took some time though but worth it I guess)
There you go. This is how fixed it. Hope it helps Thank You.
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help pls same problem tried everything
Or maybe it could be a problem with the apt sources.
See: https://somoit.net/security/error-installing-kali-installation-step-failed
This was the only solution that worked for me, thanks!
hi
I allot 10 GB Swap Area
and 97GB ssD Partition.
100 GB home partition
3GB Esp partition
after that This error is showing “Installation step failed” … “the failing step is: Select and install software”.
in most cases it’s because the http protocol in the source.list file in /etc/apt
simple run this command
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
and change the first repo protocol from : http:// to https://