BackTrack 2: Installing to a USB drive
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Back Track Linux. If you haven't heard of it, you can call it the most talked about linux live distribution for penetration testing. It's a mixture of older distributions Whax which had a lot of penetration testing tools and auditing which was focused on forensics. Back Track just gives it all to you and more. Here's their site: http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html
This post is for first things first. How to run it from more places than just a CD. Specifically a USB pen [no pun intended, or is it?] drive.
Install to a USB pen drive
This is really easy.
- Download BackTrack Linux Link
- If you're running Windows, burn the iso to disc and boot your computer into backtrack
- Run this command which will mount the iso you downloaded
- Copy the /boot and /BT folders to your pen drive
- run "sync" to make sure files are where they're supposed to be
- then run a handy script called "bootinst.sh" from the /boot folder thats on the USB drive/span>. If you do it from anywhere else you'll be at risk of overwriting the MBR on an important device.
- You'll get something like this
- You're done!?
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That's all that I needed to do on my Lenovo T43 but I know from experience this will not always work. On my system, I needed to go into the BIOS and add the USB HD as a boot option but that was it.
External Links
http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php?title=Howto:USB_Stick - a web pages that goes into how to install to USB from Windows, Linux, and OSX.
http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html -BackTrack website.
Back Track Linux. If you haven't heard of it, you can call it the most talked about linux live distribution for penetration testing. It's a mixture of older distributions Whax which had a lot of penetration testing tools and auditing which was focused on forensics. Back Track just gives it all to you and more. Here's their site: http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html
This post is for first things first. How to run it from more places than just a CD. Specifically a USB pen [no pun intended, or is it?] drive.
Install to a USB pen drive
This is really easy.- Download BackTrack Linux Link
- If you're running Windows, burn the iso to disc and boot your computer into backtrack
- Run this command which will mount the iso you downloaded
- Copy the /boot and /BT folders to your pen drive
- run "sync" to make sure files are where they're supposed to be
- then run a handy script called "bootinst.sh" from the /boot folder thats on the USB drive/span>. If you do it from anywhere else you'll be at risk of overwriting the MBR on an important device.
- You'll get something like this
- You're done!?
That's all that I needed to do on my Lenovo T43 but I know from experience this will not always work. On my system, I needed to go into the BIOS and add the USB HD as a boot option but that was it.
External Links
http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/index.php?title=Howto:USB_Stick - a web pages that goes into how to install to USB from Windows, Linux, and OSX.
http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html -BackTrack website.
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