I'm assuming you've installed the distro and are not just using the live CD based on the fact that you updated it. What specifically are you trying to do with backtrack? Have you used Linux before,...

I agree with KMDave. Ubuntu is a good place to start. VMware makes it easy for beginners to not have to worry about repartitioning their hard drive correctly and installing a boot manager that allows...

Have you put wlan0 in monitor mode?

Go into your grub menu file, and choose timeout 0 instead of timeout 10. This will load the default OS on the list for grub.

I think what thorin is trying to say is that you should probably familiarize yourself with linux in general (install Ubunu to the HD, try booting off the CD, install to a virtual machine, or...

This is not the case. You NEVER have to reinstall all of the operating systems. In your case you simply reinstalled 7, which removed the (assuming) grub boot loader by default. All you have to do is...

Hello, everyone, I've been using backtrack for a while, and before that was using Auditor, so I've been messing around for a while. I just never took the time to join this forum. Hopefully I can...