Quick Start

Simple & Quick Setup #

The setup for a quick installation of Malbian is pretty simple.

Get Malbian Images: #

You can Download manually from SourceForge or download it from the terminal with wget command:

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/malbianlinux/files/images/malbian_xfce_alpha-bokken-v1-2_x86_64.iso.gz/download

Verify the file integrity: #

We can verify the file integrity through it’s hashes, we can run:

md5sum malbian_xfce_alpha-bokken-v1-2_x86_64.iso.gz
sha1sum malbian_xfce_alpha-bokken-v1-2_x86_64.iso.gz
sha256sum malbian_xfce_alpha-bokken-v1-2_x86_64.iso.gz

malbian_xfce_alpha-bokken-v1-2_x86_64.iso.gz:

  • MD5: d5cdf5e4460f83e1f6c616e4b431a926SHA1
  • SHA1: fe91ac75fff06de3823df98722c5e7c607a2cb32
  • SHA256: 1e8d48b660f8c75288e5c05d4bd78cb30436959e5bbafe649f70c65d3123b2be

malbian_xfce_alpha-bokken-v1-1_x86_64.iso.gz:

  • MD5: 0af328bf27c06c3aff8068bc5d85551c
  • SHA1: 8e301106ba0f7d35e7d3a7ea58544c9c8f14d3a8
  • SHA256: 83f05605908b90224860729f8e0d775c8da98d326473ca20e389689443544f8f

malbian_xfce_alpha-bokken-v1-0_x86_64.iso.gz:

  • MD5: c9e4694de55ccc84b94e418331ceacbd
  • SHA1: 234d44c589a9082c51645793fea298a61f8882bb
  • SHA256: bd970e8067ff42506ec53afa930c1c8a1ee4e0cf9570f84ee653a4cc784c9236

Decompress the file & Get your prefered Hypervisor. #

To decompress the file we can use:

gzip -d malbian_xfce_alpha-bokken-v1-2_x86_64.iso.gz

Since Malbian is an ISO image it can be run in any Hypervisor. The most common ones are:

  • VM-ware
  • VirtualBox
  • Hyper-V
  • KVM/Qemu

Run it Live: #

Malbian needs to be run in a Live environment using the credentials malbian:malbian.

Install: #

Once in the live environment run the calamares installer from a terminal:

sudo calamares