

If you are doing single boot install, you can choose “Guided – use entire disk” and go to the next step. Make sure that you choose a strong password that includes special characters and numbers.Īfter that, Installer will start disk partitioning. You’ll be prompted to setup your account details including your Name, username and password. Now select the keyboard map based on your preferred language. Go to install and from there, choose Graphical install Restart your PC and from boot menu, choose your bootable USB drive. If you want to single boot your PC with Parrot Sec OS, you can skip above step. You’ll see an unallocated space at the right. Now choose how much space you want to leave for Parrot OS and then click shrink. Right click on any partition you want to shrink to free up some space If you want to dual-boot Parrot OS with Windows, you’d need an extra step to free up some space for Parrot. On Windows, you should use Win32DiskImager utility to burn ISO to the USB drive. If you are on Linux, you can use either dd or Etcher utility ( ). Download the ISO and burn it to USB drive. Making a bootable USB Driveįor dual-boot or single-boot installation of Parrot Sec OS, you need a USB drive with minimum 4GB of space. For hardware install, download the hybrid ISO of Parrot OS from its official website. If you want a Open virtualization (OVF) image of Parrot Sec OS for virtualization platforms, you can download it here with no need to install it manually, just import the OVF file and you’re all set to go. It can be installed in Virtualbox, VMware, docker and Raspberry pi, also it can be dual booted with Windows. RAM: Minimum 256MB for i386 and 320MB for amd64Īrchitecture: supports i386, amd64, 486 (legacy x86), armel, armhf (ARM) Installation It comes with pre-installed development and security tools that are commonly used by developers, security researchers and privacy-concerned people.

It is based on Debian and uses MATE as default desktop environment. Parrot Security OS is an open source and free GNU/LINUX distribution that is made for developers, security researchers, forensic investigators and privacy-aware people.
