Transcript of movie Install Backtrack To Harddisk

login as root

startx

(open a terminal window)

mount (to see what partitions we have e.g. /dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type ntfs (ro))

umount /mnt/hda1/

qtparted (to resize partitions to shrink ntfs partition down to ~3.77GB leave 4.23G for BT2)

exit from qtparted (after committing changes to disc)

use fdisk to create three new partitions as follows:

fdisk /dev/hda

p (to show current partitions)

n

p

2

(press return)

+64M (for /boot)

n

p

3

(press return)

+1024M (for swap)

n

p

4

(press return)

(press return) uses remaining space for the fourth partition

t

3

82 (to change the type of partition 3 to that of a swap partition)

w (to write changes to the disc).

(NOTE: if you get any sort of error message here it is very important to reboot and then continue from here)

(You now need to format your three partitions)

mke2fs /dev/hda2

mkswap /dev/hda3

swapon /dev/hda3

mkreiserfs /dev/hda4 (note: the author of the Movie likes to use reiserfs, but you can use whichever you prefer)

y

(Now you can start installing bt2)

mkdir /mnt/backtrack

mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/backtrack/

mkdir /mnt/backtrack/boot/

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/backtrack/boot/

cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/backtrack/

(Note: this has to copy 600+MB and takes a little while, so perhaps have a coffee)

mkdir /mnt/backtrack/{mnt,proc,sys,tmp}

mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/backtrack/dev/

mount -t proc proc /mnt/backtrack/proc/

cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/backtrack/boot/ (command changed to suit new BT 2.0 file location)

chroot /mnt/backtrack/ /bin/bash (returned /dev/pts/0: no such file or directory)

(Now you need to alter lilo.conf and write it to the mbr)

nano /etc/lilo.conf (you can use your favorite editor to do this)

(strip out all comments for clarity, and end up with lilo.conf as follows:)

lba32

boot /dev/hda

#message = /boot/boot_message.txt (we may not have this file)

prompt

timeout=1200

change-rules

reset

vga=791

#linux bootable partition config begins

image = /boot/vmlinuz

root = /dev/hda4

label = backtrack2

read-only

#linux bootable partition ends

(note: you can get your bootsplash back by giving the command"makesplash" and adding an initrd line to your lilo.conf. When you dothis make sure /boot is mounted)

#windows bootable partition config begins

other = /dev/hda1

label = WindowsXP

table = /dev/hda

#windows bootable partition config ends

(save file)

lilo -v

exit

(now reboot).

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