Comments on: How to make Backtrack 4 persistent installation on USB Disk Drive

By: Fubi

Fubi — Mon, 31 May 2010 12:26:35 +0000

Hi,
as i see a lot of people having problem making persistent usb with bt4 while running windows as main OS on there comp.
As someone said before learn to use linux first by installing ubuntu or kubuntu, as these are easy to learn OS.
But if you love that slow microsoft bluescreen system to much to cross over to better OS then try “lili usb creator” it’s freeware and is able to create bootable persistent USB for most Linux OS.

By: Gino

Gino — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:54:14 +0000

On the BT4 Final Release 2010-01-11 .iso there no /BT4 but a /casper directory.

cp -Rf /mnt/sdb1/BT4/ /mnt/sdc1/
should be replace by
cp -Rf /mnt/sdb1/casper/ /mnt/sdc1/

Also there is no /boot/syslinux but a /boot/grub directory. What is the procedure to update the /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the changes to reflect the Linux EXT2 partition?

How to make the 2GB USB Drive bootable?

By: TheSeeK

TheSeeK — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:11:30 +0000

Hi,

When i try to copy the boot and BT4 files (
root@bt:/# cp -Rf /mnt/sdb1/boot/ /mnt/sdc1/
root@bt:/# cp -Rf /mnt/sdb1/BT4/ /mnt/sdc1/
)
cp gives me an error saying no such file or directory “/mnt/sdb1/boot/”
don’t understand why, checked the usb drive, unetbootin made is job correctly as always, and the boot directory does exist…

Any thoughts?

Thank you very much

b.t.w: I also have bt4 final and there is no BT4 folder

By: Toze

Toze — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:46:32 +0000

root@bt:/# cp -Rf /mnt/sdb1/BT4/ /mnt/sdc1/
I have BT4 final and it hasn’t any folder called BT4.. will this work?

By: trustnoone

trustnoone — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:17:34 +0000

ok, now i reealize that the max cylinders i can partition is 1-490. Odd, its a 4 gig flashdrive, why is it only saying it has 490 cylinders?

By: trustnoone

trustnoone — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:44:51 +0000

Hmph, cant get it to install on my 4gig sandisk. Thinking its the retarted software that came with it. i removided it but it screwed up the memory. only have 3.8 gigs now. Got the boot to run on the flash drive, but cant save anything on it. Thats what this tut is for right? well, wondering if anyone else has the same problem, or has any suggestions. Get stuck when adding a new partition (command “a”) says i need to delete the partition on disk and then add extended partition. Whish is what i swear i just did… Thanks!

By: Muhammad Siddiq

Muhammad Siddiq — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:51:49 +0000

i copy iso to usb but i dont have bootinst.bat if any body have it pls send it to me on designergraphics [at] ymail [dot] com

By: Jimmy Kane

Jimmy Kane — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:15:26 +0000

Yes one of the best tutorials….

As far as the noobs are concerned, dont forget that one day we all used to be noobs…

By: Psyco

Psyco — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:02:35 +0000

true said, I guess they read that its a “hacker” os and think the apps/hacking will be ease-of-use, u need to know linux cli syntax to work it guys

By: Leeroy

Leeroy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:12:11 +0000

OMG … Why every noob wants to install Backtrack ?
They never had any contact with an user friendly Distribution where you don’t have to use for every little task the shell…

Folks …. please listen …. Install at first a user/noob friendly linux and then go on and learn to use Backtrack!