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Hacking Articles Part 14 (2)

Installing BackTrack Linux

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Ito na ang part 2 ng ating Hacking Articles Part 14 kung saan ituturo ko na sa inyo kung paano nga ba iinstall ang BackTrack Linux sa inyong PC, computer man yan o laptop. Medyo All English siya guys kaya pakiintindi nalang hehe pero alam kong makukuha niyo naman agad siya. Let's Start installing. :D

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BackTrack Linux distribution can be installed in 3 different ways: on virtual box, on a Portable USB and on your Hard Drive.

Installing BackTrack Linux on Virtual Box

There are times when we need to switch between operating systems rapidly and we need our BackTrack running alongside another OS like Windows or Red Hat Linux. One advantage of doing this is it gives us more accessibility. For doing this you need to download VM Virtual Box, which is a freely available tool.

Step 1—After downloading and installing virtual box on to your PC, click on the "New" button. A dialogue box will appear where you would need to type the name of the "OS," the "Version," and the operating system type. In my case the name would be "BackTrack," the OS "Linux," and the version "Ubuntu."

Step 2—The next step would be to allocate the RAM; it is recommended that you allocate at least 1024 MB (1 GB) for BackTrack to run perfectly.

Step 3—Next, choose to create a virtual drive and then in the next window select the hard drive type as VDI (Virtual Disk Image).

Step 4—In the next step, you have to choose if you want the hard disk to be dynamically allocated or have a fixed size. If you have enough space on your hard disk, you might want to choose the first option. Nevertheless, it's up to you.

Step 5—Next, choose the name of your virtual hard drive and allocate the size of the hard disk.

Step 6—So, now when the virtual hard disk has been created and other settings are selected, load the BackTrack that was downloaded onto the virtual box and click "Start"

Installing BackTrack Linux on a Portable USB

BackTrack can also be made portable by installing it on to a USB flash drive. This way you can carry BackTrack Live anywhere. This practice is useful for outsource penetration tests and, moreover, it is very easy to make BackTrack USB.

You need:

USB FLashDrive (minimum 8 GB)

A disk burning software

For this purpose, we are going to use PowerISO, which is freely available online at

Step 1—Format your flash drive and ensure that it has at least 7 GB of free space.

Step 2—Open PowerISO from the "Start" menu.

Step 3—Click on "Tools" and from the dropdown list select "Make a bootable USB."

Step 4—The following dialogue box will appear.

Step 5—Locate your BackTrack ISO disk image.

Step 6—Now it will start burning the image on to your USB drive.

Step 7—When the process is complete, the following message appears.

Installing BackTrack on your Hard Drive

If you run BackTrack from VMware or virtual box, any changes you made would be removed after rebooting; to solve this issue, we need to install BackTrack on the hard drive.

For this, we need two things:

1. BackTrack Live CD or BackTrack installed on VMware or virtual box.

2. A hard drive with minimum 20 GB free space.

Step 1—Insert the disk into the drive and boot from it. This is what you will see in the beginning:

Step 2—Then you will see the screen root@bt:, where you will have to type the command "startx".

Step 3—Now that we have booted into BackTrack, we will install it on our hard drive. Click on the icon "Install BackTrack" and your installation should start.

Step 4—On the Welcome screen, you will have to select the appropriate language and click "Forward"

Step 5—Now select your time zone. Or, if you are already connected to the network, your time zone will automatically be detected.

Step 6—Now a window to select the desired keyboard layout appears.

Step 7—Next we will have to set the partition size. In most cases we leave it to default and the entire partition is erased.

Step 8—Now the install summary appears and you just have to click on "Install" and your work is done.

The installer will take some time to complete, which may be several minutes. After the installation is complete, you will be prompted to restart your PC and as you reset your BackTrack, it will be installed to your hard drive.

P.S. wala na akong masabi hehe goodluck in installing nalang guys :D