Thanks for the pointers archangel

Got it going - heres what i did :
opened a terminal and typed
apt-get install rungetty

Then nano /etc/event.d/tty1 and edited the last line


#exec...

I have bought licences for my OS's - i have also asked other using it to do the same - Its not a package thats commercially available and it hard enough to do for most , so i only wanted to make life...

Thanks guys - and no i want to stay on BT4 , dont really want to go back to 3 as i have 4 working nicely other than the login part and i know its possible to get going , i just need a point in the...

I have managed to install BT4 onto one of the partitions of my Acer one (have Mac OS and Win XP on it as well) and it works great except for one little thing that annoys me.

When it boots it asks...

What exactly do you want ? I got backtrack 4 working on my acer one alone with mac os and windows all in one - i used lilo as the boot loader.

I put the image up on pirate bay in APPLICATIONS -...

Thanks for the input guys - I have this almost done at this stage.

I have windows as the main boot loader (i know i know - sorry) with 3 options - Windows, Mac OS , Linux and a time out for 5...

When im doing the apt get , i keep getting :
apt-get install kommander-kde3

404 Not Found
Failed to fetch...

Hmmm no help at all ? So i presume im wasting my time even trying this ?

It does work , but network manager needs to be started which is what i told him to do.

if i dont have grub installed and just windows XP as a boot device but have got the BT copied over as above , is there a way to get Grub installed and working as a boot device afterwards and disable...

Hi Guys,

Historically i have really only used BT for pentesting and it worked great off a USB drive and i was happy.... Then i got an Acer One netbook and it all changed.

I have now decided in...

try typing


/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start

Ok forgive me for being such a noob here but im more used to breaking windows (and i dont even mean the PC type) so i may need baby steps on this.
I have BT booting on a USB stick and i was able to...

I have an acer one and Bt3 or BT4 doesnt seem to see the wireless on the live CD - is there anything you had to do to get it to see it ?

I think you missed the Atheros chipset ? wifi1 ath0 ?

but im not really a linux person so i could be making an ass of myself once again.

Im having the same issue with kismet just closing on me - it opens up , then asks if i want wifi0 or ath0 - it created an ath1 interface and then dies on me.
I got an atheros chipset as well
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