BT4 Beta & Windows(7) HDD Install Dual Boot Tutorial
Works with BackTrack 4 Beta & windows including XP,vista,7.
Hello to all.time to make some fun with back|track 4 beta along with windows.I have tested this using windows 7 ultimate beta & BT 4 Beta.the fun part is both of the distro's are in beta state & will update time to time until final release.first install windows 7 ultimate and I assume you know how to do that(the most easiest thing is world I assume).here is what partition scheme I used.change it accordingly to your HDD partitions.also I assume you have make 3 extra partitions from the empty space from HDD using 3rd party tool like paragon partition manager/hiren boot,as fdisk options wipe the partition.
Boot through BT4 ISO and see the mount point using
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#nano /etc/fstab
here is how my partition scheme looks like
http://wifi0wn.files.wordpress.com/2.../snapshot4.png
Note down the partition scheme of your HDD as it will be use for later reference
now back to terminal
unmount all the NTFS & EXT,reiserfs File System
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#umount /dev/sda1
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#umount /dev/sda2
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#umount /dev/sda3
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#umount /dev/sda5
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#umount /dev/sda6
now fdisk the sda harddisk
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#fdisk /dev/sda
Here is how my hard-disk partition scheme is
http://wifi0wn.files.wordpress.com/2.../snapshot4.png
Please note down the linux partions start cylinder & last cylinder.In my case its
/dev/sda5 29561 30325 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 30326 30334 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 30335 30401 82 Linux swap / Solaris
now delete the Linux partitions carefully.use commands
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7
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6
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5
w
now reboot once as the kernel is still using old tables
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#init 6
now back to terminal after reboot
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#fdisk /dev/sda
n
29561
30325
n
30326
30334
n
30335
30401
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2 #only if you are seeing your NTFS partition as Hidden HPFS/NTFS
7 #change Hidden HPFS/NTFS to Normal HPFS/NTFS partition
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3 #only if you are seeing your NTFS partition as Hidden HPFS/NTFS
7 #change Hidden HPFS/NTFS to Normal HPFS/NTFS partition
t
7
82 #setting last sda7 as swap partition
p
and it should look like this now
http://wifi0wn.files.wordpress.com/2.../snapshot6.png
now write the tables
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root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mke2fs /dev/sda6
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mkswap /dev/sda7
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#swapon /dev/sda7
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mkreiserfs /dev/sda5
Choose Y
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/backtrack
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack/boot
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/backtrack/boot
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,boot,usr,etc,lib,opt,sb in,var} /mnt/backtrack
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#cd /mnt/backtrack
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mkdir {mnt,proc,sys,tmp}
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#chmod 1777 /mnt/backtrack/tmp
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mount --bind /dev /mnt/backtrack/dev
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mount -t proc proc /mnt/backtrack/proc/
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#chroot /mnt/backtrack /bin/bash
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#nano /etc/lilo.conf
your LILO config should look like this
http://wifi0wn.files.wordpress.com/2.../snapshot7.png
Replace the windows partition with yours e.g. /dev/sda1 to blah blah
save and exit
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#lilo -v
reboot
Make mount points for our windows/pen drive
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#mkdir /mnt {sda1,sda2,sda3,sdb1,sr0)
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#nano /etc/fstab
Update your fstab file & add entries of partitions there
here is how my fstab looks like.update it accordingly to your HDD partitions
http://wifi0wn.files.wordpress.com/2.../snapshot8.png
Save & Exit
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#init 6
That's it!
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BUGS/Mods:
1.if you are getting error "cannot obtain lock on /media/.hal-mtab" then enter the mount partion entry into /etc/fstab file.e.g as I was getting this error while accessing DVD Drive and Pen-Drive or windows partitions then make directories and update fstab file or alternatively do this
mkdir /media
touch /media/.hal-mtab
2.if you have used command "update-rc.d networking defaults".every time BT starts it will look for DHCP address for NIC's.if you don't have any connection at that time.it will just keep looking.for getting it out press ctrl +c and enter.it will carry on booting then.
3.those who wants to manually start networking type
root@ThUnDerBolT:~#/etc/init.d/networking start
If you find any bugs feel free to comment it on my blog and to update on remote-exploit forum.
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