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4.1. Minimal Installation Requirements
The installation requirements for Kali Linux vary depending on what you would like to install. On the low end, you can set up Kali as a basic Secure Shell (SSH) server with no desktop, using as little as 128 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended) and 2 GB of disk space. On the higher end, if you opt to install the default GNOME desktop and the kali-linux-full meta-package, you should really aim for at least 2048 MB of RAM and 20 GB of disk space.
Besides the RAM and hard disk requirements, your computer needs to have a CPU supported by at least one of the amd64, i386, armel, armhf, or arm64 architectures.