Backtrack 3 USB

Backtrack 3 and USB The Quick and Dirty Pictorial Guide to a Non-Persistent USB Installation

Who is Michael Smith?
8 years active duty army
Graduate of Russian basic course, Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA
DotCom survivor
Infantryman, deployed to Afghanistan (2004)
CISSP #50247 (2003), ISSEP (2005)
Former CISO, Unisys Federal Service Delivery Center
Currently a Manager in a Big Four Firm

Non-Persistent Install
Format USB Drive as VFAT/Windows 32
Copy /boot and /BT3 to the USB Drive
Make a Master Boot Record on the USB Drive
From Windows:
Double-click on boot/bootinst.bat
From Linux:
cd /path/to/mount/point
./bootinst.sh
Boot from the USB Drive
Happy Hacking!

Non-Persistent Install from Windows
Format the USB Drive as FAT32

Get IsoBuster from the following url:
http://www.isobuster.com/isobusterdownload.php
Install the software using the default options
IsoBuster lets us rip apart .iso images. We’ll need this to extract the files for the USB Install

Run IsoBuster and load up the .iso image for BackTrack

Drag-n-Drop the boot and BT3 directories from IsoBuster to the USB Drive

Pro-Tip: For the corporate-issue Lenovo Thinkpad T60, you’ll need the ATI drivers to get the GUI to work.
You can get the driver from from the following url:
http://www.offensive-security.com/modules/ati.lzm
Copy this file to the BT3/modules/ directory and it will be automagically installed.

Make the USB Drive bootable by double-clicking on boot/bootinst.bat. You might get an MBR error, the install still worked.

Windows Non-Persistent Install Caveats
Vista permissions to write to drives might bomb the MBR installation, try it on XP or a different machine.
Install is basically a LiveCD on a USB Drive
There is a way to save changes, look at the BackTrack Wiki
Don’t worry about messing up the install, it’s easy to blow away and start over!

USB Booting The Pictorial Guide to the Lenovo ThinkPad T60

Booting From USB Drive
Go into BIOS Settings
Boot off USB Drive
Pick the right BackTrack boot option
Happy Hacking!!

For the ThinkPad T60, use the “ThinkVantage” button

Hit F12 to get to the boot menu

Pick the USB Boot device

Pick the right BackTrack boot option. KDE is probably the best one, compiz might not work for you, depending on your hardware.

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