backtrack 3 usb
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The Quick and Dirty Pictorial Guide to a Non-Persistent USB Installation of Backtrack 3TRANSCRIPT
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Backtrack 3 and USB
The Quick and Dirty Pictorial Guide to a Non-Persistent USB Installation
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Who is Michael Smith?
• 8 years active duty army• Graduate of Russian basic course,
Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA
• DotCom survivor• Infantryman, deployed to Afghanistan
(2004)• CISSP #50247 (2003), ISSEP (2005)• Former CISO, Unisys Federal Service
Delivery Center• Currently a Manager in a Big Four Firm
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Non-Persistent Install1. Format USB Drive as VFAT/Windows 32
2. Copy /boot and /BT3 to the USB Drive
3. Make a Master Boot Record on the USB DriveFrom Windows:
Double-click on boot/bootinst.batFrom Linux:
cd /path/to/mount/point./bootinst.sh
4. Boot from the USB Drive
5. Happy Hacking!
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Non-Persistent Install from WindowsFormat the USB Drive as FAT32
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Non-Persistent Install from WindowsGet IsoBuster from the following url:http://www.isobuster.com/isobusterdownload.php
Install the software using the default options
IsoBuster lets us rip apart .iso images. We’ll need this to extract the files for the USB Install
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Non-Persistent Install from WindowsRun IsoBuster and load up the .iso image for
BackTrack
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Non-Persistent Install from WindowsDrag-n-Drop the boot and BT3 directories from
IsoBuster to the USB Drive
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Non-Persistent Install from WindowsPro-Tip: For the corporate-issue Lenovo Thinkpad T60,
you’ll need the ATI drivers to get the GUI to work.
You can get the driver from from the following url:http://www.offensive-security.com/modules/ati.lzm
Copy this file to the BT3/modules/ directory and it will be automagically installed.
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Non-Persistent Install from WindowsMake the USB Drive bootable by double-clicking on
boot/bootinst.bat. You might get an MBR error, the install still worked.
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Windows Non-Persistent Install Caveats Vista permissions to write to drives might bomb the MBR
installation, try it on XP or a different machine. Install is basically a LiveCD on a USB Drive There is a way to save changes, look at the BackTrack Wiki Don’t worry about messing up the install, it’s easy to blow
away and start over!
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USB Booting
The Pictorial Guide to the Lenovo ThinkPad T60
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Booting From USB Drive
1. Go into BIOS Settings
2. Boot off USB Drive
3. Pick the right BackTrack boot option
4. Happy Hacking!!
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Booting From USB Drive
For the ThinkPad T60, use the “ThinkVantage” button
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Booting From USB Drive
Hit F12 to get to the boot menu
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Booting From USB Drive
Pick the USB Boot device
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Booting From USB Drive
Pick the right BackTrack boot option. KDE is probably the best one, compiz might not work for you, depending on your hardware.
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