So that would mean: syslinux would be on sdb5 and grub would be on sdb6. However if i do that then i would need a third program to be written in the IPL of the MBR so that it would load the other two from sdb5 and sdb6 these are just examples. And sorry i made it so long, if anyone has any suggestions do not hold back.
I'm at a dead end here so please help me. And what I wrote up there was the extent of my knowledge of bootloaders, so please don't think I'm one of those extreme tech people, and please give a little detail and not just "install grub on the MBR". I don't know anything about any bootloaders specially grub. On the top right corner select drive, then right click each partition and unmount, once done delete all partitions.
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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 8 years, 2 months ago. Active 5 years, 2 months ago. Viewed times. My Solutions I'm new to the whole boot thing and studied all this yesterday so correct me if im wrong: Ubuntu uses grub, and all live cd use syslinux I would also like to know the difference between isolinux and syslinux. So that would mean: syslinux would be on sdb5 and grub would be on sdb6 However if i do that then i would need a third program to be written in the IPL of the MBR so that it would load the other two from sdb5 and sdb6 these are just examples My Question Is any of this possible?
Next thing is the ISO file for Backtrack. Then you also needed your common sense. Here's the step by step process for the installation: 1. At the boot menu, select the default and press the Enter or Return key. By default, BackTrack doe not boot into a graphical desktop. Once in the live desktop, click on the Install BackTrack icon on the desktop to launch the installer.
Then click until you get to the step shown in the image below. In the test installation used for this tutorial, I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7, leaving some unallocated space for BackTrack 5. You can see the scheme in the upper green bar. If you do not have the luxury of reinstalling Windows 7, the installer will take care of freeing up space it needs to install the system. That is the default option.
You get here by selecting Specify partitions manually advanced , then clicking Forward in the previous step. Install BackTrack 5 : Ok, back to this step, the best option for me was Use the largest continuous free space.
This is very easy. We need to create a place for the log files to go. So execute the following. Please let me know of any corrections or changes that should be made. You can leave a comment or send me a note at kriggins [at] infosecramblings. I have found myself using this guide as a tutorial reference. Very good. I found this easy enough to edit in wordpad and notepad. Thanks again great. FAT32 should work also. If you are formatting the drive using Linux, vfat is the choice you will have.
I think your tutorial is great but the final part about editing syslinux. Please make it simpler to read. This is a great guide but i cant get persistent changes to work. I am trying blades solution currently but frankly i have had no luck could you help me out with a little more detail.
I myself seems to have the same problem as Nate. Maked the changes as supposed within this tut. Also maked the changes as Blade suggested, changed the menu. No influence on persistentcy. If I open the file menu. But when I open nano the same file within BT 4, it is still unchanged default 0 instead of 5. But that may no have any influence on the persistence of saving changes and files within BT4 between rebooting.
I did not follow this guide but one similar. I was trying to get splash working again. I believe default 4 is what you may want to use.
Thx FMM for reply. Or do you have it on a pendrive? It is possible to make it one partition and enable persistence, but you have to make significant changes to how the system boots and how the casper boot scripts work.
And there are other issues particular to Backtrack 4. As far as I can tell, the actual casper persistence process requires an ext2 or ext3 filesystem type so you have to mess with setting up a loop mounted filesystem since the boot partition has to be vfat.
I am not positive on the requirement for ext2 or ext3, but most of the stuff I could find leads me to believe this. Finally, the Backtrack 4 boot process mounts the partition that it boots from read-only making it impossible to write any data to it. That is part of the boot process that you have to mess with. It is actually easier to use two partitions than trying to make one work. I think that I agree with Bob, up there.
The instruction as to what term to place where in the syslinux. Would you be able to provide an example syslinux. Followed these directions. How can I disable this? This is a great post. However I have a doubt regarding the vfat partition.
I have had this happen before and if I wait long enough, the system will boot. I do not yet know how to get rid of it. I apologize for any confusion. I was able to do everything on the guide, backtrack 4 runs smoothly on my 8. I followed all the instructions, I have 1. I tried to mount it but I still get the same error.
There is no need to install anything directly onto the second partition. When running in persistent mode, the saving of information to the second partition is transparent. Just follow the instructions above and you should end up with a working system. In my case this is ubnentry5, but it could be different in your case. I added the 0x but I do not know how to add step 3.
I am completely losed. Any help with this please? Be carefool!!! That is very interesting. I have not experienced that problem. Please let me know if you figure out what is going on and how to fix it. I had the same issue, It was do to grub version differences in ubuntu and Backtrack. You had to start by installing BT then ubuntu or Windows. Great tutorial, kriggins! Could you post your working syslinux.
Thank you for the Tuto. Everything is OK for me. I followed these instructions but am having some problems. I am a Linux noob. Okay so I tried a different approach using only Ubuntu and the videos from the Wiki page. Before I was using Windows and Unetbootin. This must be done to enable persistence.
Thanks for your good job. Thank you and I think it is very cool that you translated part of the how-to in to Spanish. I will let you know that the how-to will be getting a major rewrite this weekend.
I will let you know when it is done so you can see if you want to change anything. I like the encryption part, and will be doing that later…. Thanks for great tutorial. I have a simple solution for newbies like me out there. I did a total different approach similar way like we do HDD Install. I tried this on my Kingston 8GB Pendrive. Restarted my laptop and selected to Boot from LiveCD.
Once your are logged in with Username: root and Password: toor. Select your TimeZone and Click Next 7. Select your Keyboard Layout and click Next 8.
Enter User credentials. Remember Username and Password you entering in this screen and Click Next 9. You can See Ready to Install screen now. Its the place where you want to install Grub. Please be patient at this step as it takes a while in copying and installing system. Let the system Restart. Now you can see Ubuntu 8. Now you will be shown with Console. It askes you to enter old password. Now Re-enter New Password of your choice. This password is for ROOT. Next you need to fix Boot Splash screen.
Once the process is completed. Hit Reboot. Hope it helps someone. This process worked for me. Im sorry if its not working for you. I was aware of this method for installing the OS and plan on putting it in the how-to once I have figured out a couple changes I would like to have in place once it is installed. However, but there are a few caveats to be aware of: 1. You must create a user and, by default, cannot log in as root. Some of the tools must be run as root and it is a bit easier to not have to su or sudo.
You have to have an 8 GB or larger drive. If you hork everything up at some point, you have to do a complete reinstall. With the method described in the how-to, you can backup any important data, boot to non-persistent mode and you are back in business.
At the end of partitioning the drive should it not be w rather than p? Nice site though thanks for all the effort. Not better, but it is different. One thing is that if all you have is a 4GB drive, the install. Another factor, granted minor, is mentioned a couple comments above.
When you use the install. Not a big deal and it can be overcome, but it is there. I do plan to update the how-to and include the install. The nature of the tools used during pen testin, as I know you are aware, often require root privileges. Last note, if you do manage to hork up your install, with this method, you can at least get back in business by booting to the non-persistent mode. I have everything working as you described.
Any guidance here is appreciated. The truecrypt volume does mount OK despite this message. I have seen that error also. Yup, sudo works great. After your last note I spent some time figuring out how to enable root login after doing the install. It was quite difficult to get working. Okay, not really.
I will be adding the intall. Thanks for the thorough how-to. The only thing I am concerned with is during boot, it will not find the changes directory. Do you know of a way to manually point to it? Or is there an easier way to encrypt your changes partition since all of the changes you will make are stored there without making a container?
Thanks again. There is really only one way to approach doing what you want to do that I know of. First you have to have at least an 8 GB drive. Then you have to install BT4 on that drive as if it was a hard drive.
Then you would have to encrypt the whole drive. With the changes method, the label of the partition determines where the changes are written and that partition needs to be writable at boot time. Does the mount point you are trying to mount the truecrypt volume on exist? Can you mount it manually to a different mount point after booting? I think that is what this error is referring to. Hi, I have backtrack 3 installed on a USB flash drive with persistent change, how do I upgrade from backtrack 3 to backtrack 4?
I have heard of some people having issues with larger thumb drives. If you have another, you might give it a try.
Please let us know if you figure out what the issue is. Is it possible to use it on such devices? Any ideas on how to avoid this error? Nmap and Nessus perform two different functions. While nmap does have some scripting and vulnerability scanning capabilities, it is not nearly as mature in this respect as Nessus.
Let me do some checking and see if I can find an answer for you. It must do some sort of system fingerprinting. It may be a factor of un-registering and re-registering each time. Granted, a pain, but should work. Thanks Kevin, I will be looking forward on your research. It would be excellent if you can get it working. Unfortunately, the only resolution I can find is to un-register and re-register.
Hello Your tut is amazing…. I have tried flipping this command around alot but have had no luck at all…. Make sure you are using two single quotes for the -k option instead of a double quote and two dashes for the —protect-hidden option. I figured this was saying that my syntax was incorrect and I typed it incorrectly ….
It should look like the line below. No upper case for Protect-hidden and there should be spaces between truecrypt volume and the mount point. I just encountered one minor problem. Then i get promp, launch X, and everything seems to work. Thank you. I should update the tutorial to indicate that the error message you are getting is common.
I just ignore it. Once I alter the Home directory I get the root directory on my desktop, is this the desired outcome? Or am I missing something? Now fetching the newest plugin set from plugins. I apologize in the delay in getting back to you.
I have not run into this problem before, but a search of the forums at nessus. Try re-downloading the plug-ins. No luck with the Unetbootin windows tool.
On the other hand, I followed the linux tutorial on this page, and it worked fine. I use a 16 GB pendrive, 11 GB for the first fat32 partition so it is big enough, that it not olny includes the backtrack boot stuff, but I can use it in windows as a pendrive, to store additional data on that partition — and a 5GB partition for ext3.
Everything is just fine. Grate tutorial. Hey, thanks for the awesome guide! I did run into a few issues though, but nothing major that could not be fixed. Alright, for starters, I really wanted to install some new Nvidia drivers. After installing them, they worked great…until I changed my home directory and rebooted.
The xorg. However I did figure out a simple solution. Uninstall and reinstall the Nvidia drivers. Voila, you should not have any issues anymore with rebooting and losing the xorg. If anyone knows of a better fix, let me know. I have not had any issues since after fixing these few issues. Hopefully this helps some others out that might be experiencing the same problems. There are probably more elegant ways to fix these problems, but these were easy and work for what I am doing currently.
If you look at the menu under Backtrack-Penetration-Fast Track there are multiple ways to run it. Its a snazzy updater for lots of goodies from metasploit to the new core kismet. Most of you may have used it already but for people just playing with BT for the first time, it can be handy. You dont mention, how to start kde on boot though better use the alternative of kdm, no need to use the daemon.
In response to this issue that Arron posted above about the Nessus error during updating the plugins, I have had this problem, it is caused when the Nessus server is not running. Once I start the server everything updates with out any problem. Manually start the Nessus server then run the update. Hope this helps you out. Thanks for this guide. Is the persistence only for console mode? I would like to customize the desktop and the taskbar, too. Persistence applies to the entire system so customizations to your desktop and anything else are retained across boots.
Or, is there a workaround for it? Thank you very much! I was mistaken.. Could you help me with that by any chance? Thank you very much for the fast answer! Keep up the great work! Thanks in advance. You will have to manually mount your systems hard drive. That seems a little bizarre. Not sure why that would be the case. May I ask for your opinion? When you boot the system make sure it is booting the persistent option, even if the default is set.
Sometimes number can be off. Also, make sure that when you formatted the persistent partition, you included the -L casper-rw part of the command.
This labels the partition as the changes partition. I would reboot with both USB devices in the machine. It should not auto-mount the target devices. This will tell you what is mounted and where. Oops, I misread your comment. I thought it you said both were mounted.
It looks like you may be trying to install to the wrong drive. Double check which drives are which in your system. Hi Kevin, Excellent Tutorial. I will offer that we have a new way to encrypt the whole drive that is much better as long as you have at least an 8GB drive. You can find it here:. I finally found the way around this. To tell you the truth,why would I go through all that trouble typing commands when he can just run the install. No offense,but i made a persistent usb without typing any command!
Take an empty pen drive this tutorial requires an 8 GB min. USB drive, for smaller look under the alternative methods 2.
Get bt4-pre-final. Burn it with nero or whatever use low writing speed 4. Boot the live CD, startx and run install. It will then perform all the necessary steps to create the USB. Thanks for the feedback. As mentioned at the very top of the how-to, check out the latest how-to for encrypting the usb key:. Still a bit of typing, but at least your data is protected. I also created a video of the install:. Thanks you. Did you check the syslinux.
The other common problem is to forget or miss-type the -L casper-rw portion of the mkfs. Did you get things working? Sometimes the drives get mounted in cdrom02, cdrom03 or just cdrom. Check those out and modify the command accordingly. Ummmm… I think you have right! I read: 1. It work! You are absolutely right, the correct syntax is as you state. The problem was not a typo though.
I installed a new theme and it re-enabled the wptexturzie function with tries to make things pretty. I have disabled that function again. As I indicate in the comment above a theme change messed things up the command needs two dashes before no-floppy and no-directory. Sorry about my delay in responding. I feel like a huge idiot since I just deleted my windows partition. Is there anyway I can save some files.
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