http://g0tmi1k.blogspot.com has quite a few good ones.

It is by Vivek Ramachandran, the creator of the wireless security and metasploit megaprimers. Those two series are the best resources (paid or free) I have ever came across on the internet. So, I am...

You do not need any where close to a 250g partition for backtrack.

I suggest learning a good bit a networking and how to use the terminal before getting into backtrack.

Thanks for taking the time to make this, updating backtrack manually is a pain.

Everything seems to be working on my end.

I am kind of in the same boat as you. From the advice I have been getting a 4 year degree really helps, even if it isn't a infosec degree. As far as classes I have been told that you get a lot more...