backtrack-hd-install.pdf

BackTrack Hard Drive Installation

BackTrack Development Team

jabra [at] remote-exploit [dot] org

Installing Backtrack

to a USB Stick or Hard Drive

Table of Contents

BackTrack Hard Drive Installation..........................................................................3

Foreword..............................................................................................................3

History.................................................................................................................3

Requirements.......................................................................................................3

How do I install Backtrack to my hard drive ? .......................................................4

Booting Backtrack...............................................................................................4

Creating the Partitions........................................................................................4

Creating the Filesystems....................................................................................7

Mount the Devices...............................................................................................9

Backtrack Installer............................................................................................10

Final Notes........................................................................................................14

BackTrack Hard Drive Installation

Foreword

Before we begin, I'd like to stress that I am not responsible for anything that

goes wrong with the installation. This document was created to aid in the

installation process of Backtrack to a hard drive. I take no responsibility if things

go wrong.

If you follow this documentation,

it will wipe all of the data on your hard drive!

History

For years, users have had to install and update the security and wireless tools to

perform security assessments. However, Backtrack has a great feature which

makes it easy to install on a USB or Hard Drive. By using this feature, it bypasses

the hassle of having to install and update the tools manually.

Requirements

The requirements for the installation are either 700 MB or 2700 MB of hard

drive space on a given device.

How do I install Backtrack to my hard drive ?

One of the cool features in Backtrack, is the ability to install onto your USB

device or Hard Drive. The installer gives the choice of doing a minimal

installation or a full installation. Obviously, with the number of tools included on

Backtrack there are many times when this is an incredibly useful feature.

Booting Backtrack

The first step is to boot Backtrack using the cdrom. If you are using Vmware

machine use the ISO as the cdrom. When the login prompt appears, login using:

username: root

password: toor

Creating the Partitions

Next, you will need to create the partitions and file systems. The device I am

using is /dev/sda which is 3.75 gigs in size. I will create 3 partitions. The first

partition will be /boot which I will allocate 50 MB which will be mounted as

/boot. The second partition will be a swap partition which I will allocate 512 MB.

The final partition will fill the rest of the disk and be mounted as /.

BT ~ # fdisk /dev/sda

Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel

Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,

until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous

content won't be recoverable.

Command (m for help): n [enter]

Command action

e extended

p primary partition (1-4)

p [enter]

Partition number (1-4): 1[enter]

First cylinder (1-456, default 1): [enter]

Using default value 1

Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-456, default 456): +50M [enter]

Command (m for help): n [enter]

Command action

e extended

p primary partition (1-4)

p [enter]

Partition number (1-4): 2 [enter]

First cylinder (8-456, default 8): [enter]

Using default value 8

Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (8-456, default 456): +512M [enter]

Command (m for help): n [enter]

Command action

e extended

p primary partition (1-4)

p [enter]

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