TO INSTALL BACKTRACK 5 LINUX

In this tutorial i will show you how to install Backtrack 5 R3 which is recently  released by offensive security team . if you’ve previously installed backtrack then you might be familiar with backtrack installations  . its easy and simple just follow given simple steps.

Stage 1 

Requirements
1 : Download backtrack ISO from here
2 :  Download VMware Workstation or  VMplayer
3 : Install any of above

Stage 2

Installation

1 : Create A new virtual machine

2 : choose installer ISO ( choose backtrack 5 ISO ) 

3 : choose Linux as your guest operating system type and Ubuntu as version

4 : give a name and location of your backtrack VM

5 : Specify virtual hard drive space ( 20 GB is good enough )

then click finish from ready to create vm window

hit enter to go boot screen then choose default boot text mode and hit enter

HIT ENTER AT THIS POINT

type startx to start GUI ( x server )

click on Install backtrack icon or open terminal type sh -c “ubiquity” 

 

and continue like normal installation choose keyboard type and provide location info

if you are installing just backtrack then go normally and erase and use entire disk

or if you installing backtrack with other OS then specify partition accordingly ( in this tutorial m using virtual hard-drive )

click on forward and click on install

wait until it finish installing

it will take up-to 30 minutes depend on your system

STAGE 3
This is second part of  << backtrack virtual machine installation tutorial 
in this tutorial i will cover how to install vmware tools and additionally how to install
Reboot and login with default username and password

username : root
password : toor

Before installing vmware tools

ONLY KDE users ,  fix unable to create symlink problem :

root@bt:~# mkdir /etc/cups/ppd

 

Prepare Kernels  Source 

 

 root@bt:~#prepare-kernel-sources

Change Root password of backtrack 5 R3 installation 

root@bt:~#passwd root 
Enter New UNIX Password : 
Retype New UNIX Password : 
passwd : Password Updated Successfully

After Prepare kernel sources now , Install vmware tools
1 : Eject and Disconnect Backtrack if its still mounted
2 : click on vm and choose install vmware tools
3 : if  mount automatically then its okay else mount manually

root@bt:~#mkdir /mnt/vmtools
root@bt:~#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/vmtools/
mount : block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
root@bt:~#cp /mnt/vmtools/VMwareTools-8.8.4-743747tar.gz /tmp
root@bt:~#cd /tmp
root@bt:/tmp#tar zxpf VMwareTools-8.8.4-743747tar.gz
root@bt:/tmp#cd vmware-tools-distrib/
root@bt:/vmware-tools-distrib/#perl ./vmware-install.pl

it will ask many question if you are not sure just go with defaults and when it finish installing simply type
fix-splash

root@bt:fix-splash
root@bt:reboot

this is third and last part of backtrack installation tutorial
after installing backtrack and vmwaretools
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<< Second part
few things to do :

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
click on vm > snapshots
and create snapshot
and when you break or get messed up  with your virtual machine just revert back to snapshot