Installing Kali linux on an Intel NUC 5PPYH

Installing Kali linux on an Intel NUC5CPYH is quite easy and you should not encounter problems.

Download the Kali image that you need on the official site.

!!! Be careful to take a 64-bit image for the Intel NUC 5PPYH, otherwise your installation will fail.

After that, you must create a Kali Bootable USB drive. On Windows you can use Rufus. Rufus recommends to try using ISO mode first to write on the USB drive, nevertheless, it did not work for me and the installation of Kali linux fail. Thus, I recommend to use the DD mode and your installation will go well.

If on the first boot after the installation you have the following errors:

You can fix errors by using the command line systemctl restart wicd.service to solve the issue into your current session. And after, you can use the command line systemctl enable wicd.service to avoid the problem to reappear after a reboot.