But ever since BT4 there has been this issue where you have to download several copies before you get one that works.

My homebrew pentest linux is quite awesome (pats self on back), but there are things I want to play with in kali that I have failed to get working on my end. Has any one found a solution to this problem? Not to mention on the wannabes that have no idea how to get help. Seriously, there has to be an issue on the server side if so many people are getting the same results. I have downloaded it twice via web and 3 times via torrent. I get a different SHA sum result from every download and none of them match the one on the website. Thank you for switching to this kernel I am looking forward to working with Debian much more in the future. So far I like the OS & was actually very happy with the slick Debian installer. I would have kept at it figuring this problem out but I was excited to see this OS & said '**** with it for now.' I prefer advice to headaches. It was somewhat annoying & I am sure there must be some way to get a BT 5 r3 installed GRUB to autorun a disk. I had to manually delete the partitions in win disk management & then run a repair disk using DOS cmd to bootrec /fixmbr & bootrec /fixboot to rewrite the MBR to get the disk to autorun. The disk would not be recognized for an autorun upon booting the machine. I ran into problems initially with an install of BT 5 r3 & win 7 booting with GRUB. I am dual booting with win 7 pro like many others.

I ended up doing the full partition install guided & ended up with one big partition & a swap area this is not what I prefer.

Today I went back through the install after getting some rest & ran into the same guided partitioning problem failing at install. That was last night and I gave up at some wee hour of the morning. I went manual & made sure that everything was properly formatted plus I erased any exsisting data from the partitions with the partition manager. It seemed rather odd to me that I would get an install fail using guided partitioning. I had the same problem although it was installing with a guided partitioning using normal linux partition methods /, /usr, /var, swap, /tmp, & /home partitions.

Kali linux installation step failed