Trust me, I AM an expert at installing Backtrack onto a pen-drive. Here's a tutorial just for you:

1) Install BT onto a 8 gig pendrive using unetbootin.
2) Repartition the pendrive with gparted....

Now mouse settings (double-click) and fonts sizes revert back to their annoying KDE defaults. Oh well, another fun day in Backtrackville. This time I will not reinstall (3rd time in three days). ...

Runs in KDE, awesome app and ubuntu 8.10 friendly.

Thanks for this info or4n9e, it works great. This procedure coupled with the power off button I added to my task bar means one click to shut down and I can walk away. Thanks again. -GH

Yes, I'm aware that it's possible to make an autostart script for wicd and thank you for the reply but, that's not what I'm shooting for here.

CORRECTION: This button is to run the "/etc/init.d/wicd start" command (the precursor to running the actual wicd application).

To configure the button:

1) Right click on the task bar.
2)...

1) Right click on the task bar.
2) Scroll down to "Add application to panel"
3) In sub-menu, select "Add non-KDE Application"
4) In the Button title field type: "Power Off" as your label.
5) In...

Thanks for the tips. :-)

Thank you so much for these tweaks.

The following output was generated when I ran the dragon menu icon script:

Archive: /root/.kde3/share/icons/nuvoX_0.7/kmenu-dragon.zip
extracting:...

You may have made a mistake on step #7 and installed the bootloader to your hard disk (hd0). I'm an XP user so I can't comment specifically on how to restore the MBR on a Vista machine but I'm sure...

Link: KDE - Be free

I know these are options however when you're doing a job and time is limited would you rather be spending time typing in code to make your OS function? Or use time in a more productive fashion?

I...

Buy Maxell's... they work great with CDBurner XP.

Memorex cd-r's suck and caused me 3 days worth of headaches trying to resolve burner issues.

Note: Always try another brand of CD-R's BEFORE...

If you use UNetbootin to install to a hard disk or to a USB drive, you will still be in "Live CD" mode and, any changes you make will be lost when you poweroff.

UNetbootin is a bit misleading in...

Hi Thorn,

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I cleaned everything, used Cleanup and Regseeker, defrag 2x and even did a disk wipe of the empty disk space. Seems as though to get a dual boot...

Hi all,

I'm looking to do a BT4 install as a dual boot with a Win XP machine and I have about 25 gigs of free space but the partition editor will only let me access 8 gigs.

I know all about the...

Thanks for the info on the boot splashes and upgrading. I downloaded a startup manager for Gnome that will change back the boot splash in Jaunty, if I wish to do so in the future.

Cheers!

Hi all,

I'm looking to configure 2 shared partitions on my laptop so I can:

#1 - have Ubuntu and BT4 share the same swap partition

and

#2 - set the other another partition up so I can to...

I have a side by side HDD install of BT4 and Ubuntu 9.04 both and when I applied the BT splash fix, the Ubuntu splash stopped working.

Is there a fix for this?

In a separate question, my apps...

Question:

Would having Wicd start up on boot interfere with the Aircrack suite? I would think it might be better to start it as needed instead of on boot (just my humble opinion). :)

Poweroff button
Wicd start button
Use Gnome for desktop
Wifi Network status indicator on task bar (like in Gnome)

If you want to use UNetbootin to install a dual boot BT4/XP (or along side with another Linux OS) and do it off an External USB drive (different from a pen drive)...

The External USB drive... must...

I am NOT the author of these instructions but they may be of use to someone who is looking to build a vm from the iso image (using a customized iso should work as well). These instructions are not...

Thanks for your reply. I'll probably pick up a burner this weekend and play around with making a dual boot setup.

Hi,

I was wondering if it is at all possible to make a bare-bones version of Backtrack 4 to fit on a CD and, can this be done with Ubuntu installed on an HDD instead of having to have BT4...