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How To Install Backtrack4 Using Grub On Ubuntu

Backtrack is an operating system that is specially designed for networking security. Bactrack OS is based on Linux. As of this writing the latest version of Bactrack is Backtrack4 with many, many useful applications. Before installing BT4, make sure you have installed Ubuntu on your computer so we can use Ubuntu’s Grub for booting.

Follow these steps to install and configure dual booting Ubuntu / Backtrack4.

  1. Prepare your PC
    Ubuntu OS installed on sda2
    BT4 will install on sda3
  2. Run BT4 using LiveCD
    user : root
    password : toor
    #startx
  3. Installation process

    # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda3

    # mkdir /mnt/BT4
    # mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
    # mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/BT4
    # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ubuntu
    # mkdir /mnt/BT4/boot

    # cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/BT4/boot
    # cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/BT4/
    # mkdir /mnt/BT4/{mnt,proc,sys,tmp}
    # mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/BT4/dev/
    # mount -t proc proc /mnt/BT4/proc/

  4. Edit Grub of Ubuntu
    # vi /mnt/ubuntu/boot/grub/menu.lst

    #you must insert this at bottom page:
    title Backtrack4
    rootnoverify (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz vga=791 root=/dev/sda3 ro autoexec=xconf;kdm
    boot

  5. Exit and restart your PC. Select “Backtrack4” and login.
  6. Registering sda3 to fstab
    We must register /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 so either Ubuntu or BT4 can be booted.

    # mkdir /mnt/BT4
    # mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
    # vi /etc/fstab

    /dev/sda2 /mnt/ubuntu ext3
    /dev/sda3 /mnt/BT4 ext3

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How to make Backtrack 4 boot from USB

In this article we will describe how we can make a USB Bootable drive for Backtrack 4 Linux distribution. The new release is based on Debian/Ubuntu and not on Slackware as it was used to be in earlier versions (Backtrack 3 and below).

In this article the UNetbootin Windows version tool has been used to demonstrate the above scenario.

Requirements:
Minimum USB Drive capacity 1 GB
Format the USB to FAT32

Tools:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.remote-exploit.org/cgi-bin/fileget?version=bt4-beta-iso

Workaround:

1. Download BT4 Beta ISO
2. Download UNetbootin to make our usb bootable
3. Run Unetbootin and select bt4-beta.iso for diskimage
4. Select USB Drive letter and click on OK to start making a bootable usb drive

After the creation process finishes restart your machine and boot from the new usb bootable drive created and enjoy Backtrack 4 Beta on your system.

Default Backtrack 4 username is root and password is toor.

Note: Be sure that your install the MBR on the USB drive by executing drive:bootbootinst.bat on your USB drive.

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BT4 Install: Simplest way to install BackTrack4

Remote-exploit and BackTrack released the public Beta of BackTrack 4 the second week of February. As soon as this news came out, all sorts of people were on its download spree.  Within 5 days the download count reached 49,000+ for ISO and 17,000+ for the VMWare image.

As BT4 is still in its (pre release) Beta phase a lot of packages are missing, especially VoIP and Services sections. So you will need to manually start and control the services like sshd, vnc etc.  One more prominent change you should note is DHCP configurations and dhcp client (dhcpcd) are deliberately removed from startup script. BackTrack 4 starts in runlevel 2 where networking is disabled.

For BackTrack 4 the team introduced a new shell called “Debian Almquist Shell (Dash)” and /bin/sh is now a symlink to /bin/dash. It looks like “dash” shell does not support most of the semantics of legacy bash shell. As per wikipedia – Dash is a direct descendant of the NetBSD version of the Almquist Shell (ash).

Installing BackTrack needs at least 4 GB of free space on Hard drive. BT4 Beta has foot print of 856 MB without having voip packages. It could easily reach 1 GB mark in the future. So Make sure you have enough hard disk space before starting installation.

Go to the PowerCram HowTo: Backtrack 4 (Pre Release) Hard Drive Installation or BackTrack 4 Beta Hard Disk Install.

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