Actually Mint defaults to Ext4 now, so I don't know how that would do with Backtrack, but he could always use the space from the ntfs partition under Linux, I think.

Try apt-get clean, apt-get update, apt-get -f install, then apt-get update again, then apt-get -f install again, then just keep repeating that process. If you meant you already tried that though, you...

I'd been using ettercap on my other computer, which has the pre-final version of BT4 installed on it for a while and just recently installed BT4 on this computer (if you need specs just ask) most...

Even though there aren't any specific guides to Backtrack though, there are still many guides for the individual tools provided by backtrack. I'd recommend searching for guides to the tools you plan...