How to install backtrack 3 final from the shell

[J_dillinger]

With flash drives getting to the size they are, what is the differance between a hard drive install and a USB install? What I want from bt3 is an installed / configurable version on a flash drive. The 4 gig flash drive is large enough to have an installed version with profiles and a root password other than toor. I would like a usb install that is customized with ted or open office, the things i use other than backtrack3 tools to make the system a little more comfortable. My portable computer system. Systems like DSL just don't have the power I want from a keychain system... I have installed knoppix and was able to customize and lock down the system on a 4 gig flash drive. I have an 8 gig flash with an ext3 partition and a 1 gig swap partition... If I follow the instructions provided by pure hate, will I mess up GRUB on my box now and have to load the computer with the flash drive in the system? A problem I had doing a different flash install.

[15874102]

Thanks pureh@te, this Tutorial was very helpful! Install went very smoothly and works perfectly!

For anyone wondering why I chose to install to my HDD is simply because I use this laptop only for this purpose. I have been running BT2 until today when I finally had the time to change over to BT3. Using the laptop in the field USB drives can get broken easily.

[K7@$#]

first off excellent tutorial,of the thousands out there with various different methods this is nice and simple to follow..im having a problem though.when i reach this stage :

bt~#cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,va r} /mnt/backtrack/

im returned with the errors no space left on device?? all partitions are set correct..any help??

[adri_ht_]

first off excellent tutorial,of the thousands out there with various different methods this is nice and simple to follow..im having a problem though.when i reach this stage :

bt~#cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,va r} /mnt/backtrack/

im returned with the errors no space left on device?? all partitions are set correct..any help??

I don't see what else could it be... Do you have enough space in the partition mounted at /mnt/backtrack/?

[Charlie708]

first off excellent tutorial,of the thousands out there with various different methods this is nice and simple to follow..im having a problem though.when i reach this stage :

bt~#cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,va r} /mnt/backtrack/

im returned with the errors no space left on device?? all partitions are set correct..any help??

Expanded, BT3 is about 3.4GB. You might not have enough free space on your drive.

I just followed these steps, but I can't boot into BT3. I installed it on my HDD as sda10, with changes as sda12. I had GRUB on the MBR already, so I just added an entry for BT3.

title		BT3 HDD
root		(hd0,9)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/sda10 rw changes=/dev/sda12 autoexec=xconf;kdm
initrd		/boot/initrd.gz

Boot seizes up when looking for the BT3 directory. Is the lack of a BT3/ directory causing the crash, or is it an error with my grub entry?

[purehate]

I installed it on my HDD as sda10, with changes as sda12

This would mean you have a live install not a real install so thats probably why its not working.

[Charlie708]

Alright, thanks. I get rid of the changes, since I don't have the live install, I have a full install with the changes argument.

I found out the problem - it was the initrd. Taking it out solved the problem.

[K7@$#]

This is how my partition table looks,im assuming backtrack hdd install is for sda3 (which is what i specify when following tutorial) but as mentioned before it states no more space on device when using the cp --preserve........etc.

Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 58506416640 bytes, 58.5 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 7113

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda3 Primary Linux ReiserFS 56499.45
sda2 Primary Linux swap 1003.49
sda1 Boot Primary Linux 1003.49

i would have thought the 57 gig free would be sufficiant to install BT3 :P

[Charlie708]

This is how my partition table looks,im assuming backtrack hdd install is for sda3 (which is what i specify when following tutorial) but as mentioned before it states no more space on device when using the cp --preserve........etc.

Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 58506416640 bytes, 58.5 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 7113

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda3 Primary Linux ReiserFS 56499.45
sda2 Primary Linux swap 1003.49
sda1 Boot Primary Linux 1003.49

i would have thought the 57 gig free would be sufficiant to install BT3 :P

Is there the wrong partition mounted? Check to make sure that it is installing to sda3, and don't forget to make a filesystem on sda1.

[ZHoob2004]

ok, i seem to have the same problem as stagger did a while back in that it will not let me chroot /mnt/backtrack/ /bin/bash it tells me there is no file at /bin/bash while i know there is. i have completely restarted my installation several times trying to fix this problem and i have also tryed to mount -o bind /dev /mnt/backtrack/dev as instructed by another but to no avail so some help from anyone would be really nice. i have even tryed using multiple systems to try and install onto this drive but they all get stuck here.