yeah ignore that.


stumped for the moment..


your method should work in theory.... just try it... you cant trash the drive since there is nothing to trash.

Since your booting from the live usb you should have access to the install.sh on your desktop which will install bt4 and set the mbr for you

you need to set the mbr on the hdd to boot the files you copied
look for tutorials on grub they should point you in the right direction

When using vmware workstation I always set the networking to bridge. Never had a problem with it and I think it's the same as vmware server.

Used to use vmware before I got my eeepc and the only...

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/backtrack-4-general-support/25027-bootinst-bat-bt4-pre-final.html

my addition to add the bootinst.bat into bt4 which was removed for some reason.

Or UNetbootin...

Hard disk partitioning, Grub configuration, Common sense.

Go search

Bssid = The mac address of your access point
Ssid = The name of your wireless access point
Essid = Same as ssid but used in the context of a extended service set

as for what stuball has said...

Another question what springs to mind is that are you close enough to the ap? If your too far away the injection of packets will mostly fail due to poor signal strength / quality.


Also does your...

I'll give this a try later to see if it works for me also. As i'm used to typing ath0 rather than wlan0 :)

Edit:- This does work, however.

I found if you install the drivers with tools and...

When you try to run startx what happens?

sudo iwlist <interface> scan

example
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

look for address: of your essid.... this is what you need


took less than 2 mins with google to find this info

Mine did the same last night after installing madwifi-tools and updated everything with apt-get.


Spent most of last night attempting to fix it by redownloading drivers and searching the forums...

yeah stupid typo.

I had to rewrite the cfg file on my main machine because the one on the original flash drive was in use installing bt4 on my eeepc.
Serves me right not copying it from there in...

Since Bt4 (pre) Final doesn't come with bootinst.bat I decided to add it in for the people who can't boot from cd to get the goodness out of backtrack.

All I did was "borrow" the bootinst.bat from...

Quite nice. Will give this a try once I got Bt4 installed on my eeepc.

Kinda funny really this happening to a security themed show... It's kinda like a fire station burning down.

Classic video, Been around for a while.

As for the searching in the forums is one of the main reasons my post count is so low.

Oooh nasty. Kinda cool though.

I've been running bt on vmware for about 2 weeks now. Learned the hard way but managed to get it installed. This will come in handy for installing the vmtools.

Nice tut.

I forgot to mention that i tired irqpoll aswell.. It was a tad late when i was posting.


Anyways another day to get this thing working

Hi,

I'm new to the forums, new to bt and new to linux.
Ive run bt a few times on a few machines from a cd and had no problem until now.

Im trying to run bt on a freevents X55 laptop with bt 2...