persistent BackTrack 4

Hi,

In a nutshell, persistent BackTrack 4 (BT4) will work if using a casper-rw named partition or a casper-rw named loop file.

However, I am not able to make the loop file option work. Any one can help?

Refs:

steps that I followed to create the persistent loop file:
Linux Tips: Create a larger casper-rw loop file for your live usb from Linux
blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/11/create-larger-casper-rw-loop-file-for.html

Posts that related to my question (but no answer)
http forums.remote-exploit.org/backtrack-4-general-support/28397-persistent-cd.html
http forums.remote-exploit.org/discussioni-generali/28430-installare-backtrack-4-persistent-mode-su-chiavetta-usb.html
http forums.remote-exploit.org/backtrack-4-howto/23652-bt4-usb-installation-noob-proof-tutorial.html

and
http forums.remote-exploit.org/search.php?searchid=4680653
(Search: Keyword(s): persistent casper )

Please help.

*EDIT*: PS, I'm experienced Debian user, and not too sure how the versioning works in Ubuntu. I mean, since BT4 is based on a old version of Ubuntu, how current is casper? Is there any online man page for the version of specific casper that BT4 uese?

thanks
sfxpt

Hello sxfpt,

I followed these 2 steps to create my persistent file.

Code:

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dd if=/dev/zero of=casper-rw bs=1M count=800
mkfs.ext3 -F casper-rw

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This gave me an 800Mb file that I placed at the root of a FAT32 partition. I did put it in a different partition then the casper directory, but I don't think that that makes a difference. I wanted it in a separate partition that i could manipulate while booted in BT4 non-persistent or Windows. This has worked fine and is detected at boot.