Install Backtrack 3 on USB
Here are some pretty easy steps to install Backtrack 3 to your USB drive.
Go to Offensive-Security and get the Backtrack 3 Beta USB rar file, about 946 MB in size.
I got on my Windows XP machine and used WinRAR to uncompress to a folder on my machine.
Copy the BT and BOOT folders to your thumb drive.
If you are on a Windows machine, go into the /boot folder and run bootinst.bat, if you are running Linux or OSX run bootinst.sh. This will set your thumb drive to be bootable.
I am running BT3 on my Dell E1705 laptop with Compiz running. In the grub, it says that this is experimental, but I have not seen any errors as of yet.
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thanks great help fore me
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I get an error when I try to run this command on OS X:
[adam@adamMB /Volumes/OCZ4GB/boot]$ ./bootinst.sh
egrep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
egrep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
egrep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
Can’t find device to install to.
Make sure you run this script from a mounted device.
it’s does not work. the run box display window cannot find bootinst.bat please type the name corectly..why???
Try to do it as root
i got message when to run file bootinst.bat
access is denied.
you are starting Slax installer from a read-only-media,this will not work.
……….press any key to exit
so what kind of USB should I have to use ? or did i make something wrong?
Hi, Installed as shown. Would run from livecd but now after setting up usb drive (2gb sandisk) on a laptop and desktop it will get to “Using /etc/random-seed to initialize /dev/urandom” and it will hang. Normaly when I dont see a screen on my hp dv6700 laptop I just hit the power button and it comes up, so I tried that when it locks up and it just goes into shutdown mode going thru all the steps and finally power off. Any ideas? Is it trying to write to an area on my usb drive that isnt there or ?
Thanks, Dan.
It worked, thanks
My usb stick is fornatted to FAT32, will I need to change this to something else (such as ext?) to install BT3 on it?
You know, it’s been so long since I installed it that I believe I did reformat my usb.
Thanks a lot. Great job………:-)
BR,
Shubhamoy
http://shubhamoy.wordpress.com/
hello when i extract the .iso (with peazip, it’s a free zip-unzipper) and extract’s 3 folders: boot, BT3, [BOOT]
should i delete [BOOT]?
plz give me the command to run the script
i’m noob on linux!!!
when i go to boot from ( usb-zip) it says that it can’t find the disk or something like that
accessing physical drive access is denied… why?
Run as root!
type su then your password
hello . when i boot from USB in a widoos bootable labtop it starts to boot from usb but it reaches to a point says . “error. thats shouldnt happen please press ctrl+alt+dlt to reboot”
im new in this field and i cant understand why this error happens .
hi the instruktion here is very god.
i found a install instruktion too.
look at this site:
http://backtrack.1rss.de
i hope you like this.
cu
when booting to does nothing just goes back to exactly the same boot screen of (Booth with KDE , GNOme ….etc)
http://www.mal3abna.com/
when I Boot it doesn’t boot just takes me to the boot screen of (Booth with KDE , GNOme ….etc)
hey guys this instructions is way outdated now.
there is a usb version on the same site plus dont touch the beta they have a final release for version 3 and pre release for version 4.
if you still have problems google unetbootin-windows-323 or live usb creator. i prefer live usb as it designed to handle backtrack 3