What you are seeing here is a custom terminal for BackTrack -- You probably already knew that part though...

If you want to start the GUI interface, wether KDE or Gnome, use the command "startx"...

Loving Fern! It is incredibly intuitive and hosts some awesome features! Been great so far on my lab tests and has been very helpful with understanding some things, so thank you!!!

I was wondering...

That won't work. The Backtrack installation from LiveCD will only allow internal HDD's not USB. There are two options, depending on what you want out of it. Do you want the setup to retain all...

I would assume that this would be okay, actually. After all, you have full access to do as you please, you pay for space and your webserver has it's own IP address (I assume, most do...) than this...

With that setup, I do think that a VM would *probably* meet your needs as long as your wifi adapter is USB (Backtrack cannot use your internal wifi as a wifi device, it only sees it as Ethernet...)....

Oh, also, I didn't realize that the blue was part of your post initially... I thought it was sig and didn't read it.

For some of your questions:
What should I go with? Netbook or Laptop(includes...

Chipset is made Ralink if that helps. FCC ID lookup is a great tool for these types of situations... just FYI.

Thanks for the link... But the info in that thread did not really give me any insight as to what to expect. I read that the OP of that thread was having trouble getting video to work, but the other...

Hello, my name is Joe, and I have become very interested in Back|Track. I am also interested in two laptops, the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and the Asus G70S. I know, two completely different systems. I...

Are you running Windows? If that is the case, you can use a program called "unetbootin-source-281" (Google is your friend). It does all the work, no need to get in the tangle of complicated CMD...