Installing Kali Linux: Fix "Couldn't mount CD ROM" error - Bernhard Knasmüller on Software Development

This is going to be a short one. You may be experiencing troubles when installing Kali Linux via an USB flash drive:

Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive. If so you can insert it and try again.

You may be inclined to waste a few hours following one of the countless articles suggesting to manually open a shell, change the way your USB stick is mounted and try to fix the issue that way.

However, chances are there is a simpler solution in case you are using the popular “LiLi USB Creator” tool on Windows for preparing your flash drives. This solution is: forget LiLi USB Creator and use Win32 Disk Imager instead. Everything will work fine, you can thank me later.