How to install BackTrack 3 Final from the shell, dual boot Win XP or Vista

[ao255]

HI evrybody

What you need
Computer with Win XP Or vista or other OS installed
BackTrack 3 Final iso on a CD or DVD or USB stick to boot from
Backup
Back up your entire system, there is no guarantee that it will not break.
Defrag your XP NTFS partition
While still in Win XP, defrag your NTFS drive. You will resize it to make space for the BackTrack partitions.
Boot BackTrack live from CD, DVD or USB device
Unmount the existing partitions, the BackTrack Live has automatically mounted them.

umount /dev/sda1
umount /dev/sda2
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Run QTParted to resize the NTFS partition
KDE menu > System > QTParted
Resize sda1 to make free space for BackTrack and save changes. Exit QTParted.

Create Linux partitions for BackTrack

fdisk /dev/sda

Create a primary partition number sda3 1 GB in size, this will be swap
Create a primary partition number sda4 of remaining space, this will be /boot and /
Format the new partitions

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda4
mkswap /dev/sda3
swapon /dev/sda3

Mount the new partitions so you can install BackTrack on them

bt ~ # mkdir /mnt/backtrack
bt ~ # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/backtrack/
bt ~ # mkdir /mnt/backtrack/boot/
bt ~ # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/backtrack/boot/

Install BackTrack files

bt ~ # cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/backtrack/
bt ~ # mkdir /mnt/backtrack/{mnt,proc,sys,tmp}
bt ~ # mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/backtrack/dev/
bt ~ # mount -t proc proc /mnt/backtrack/proc/
bt ~ # cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/backtrack/boot/

And lilo file

bt ~ # chroot /mnt/backtrack/ /bin/bash
bt / # nano /etc/lilo.conf

In nano change the line at the lilo file
1. boot /dev/sda or boot /dev/hda
2.timeout=60
3.root = /dev/sda4
4.remove read-only
5.add the following line at the end of the lilo file

other=/dev/sda1
label=Windows

Excellent. Save that and then execute lilo

bt / # lilo -v

after that exit your chroot enviorment
and reboot and cross your fingers

bt / # exit
bt ~ #reboot

Good Luck
A_O

[purehate]

What happened to sda2? Plus if you going to use every one else's work and call it yours you should at least explain the whole thing. You neglected to explain how to use fdisk which is where most people fux0r their installs.

[ao255]

sda1=Windows
sda2=Windows extended Partition
sda3=Swap Partition
sda4=/boot &/ (root Partition)

[Dissident85]

If you are going to dual boot with vista, it might be a good idea to use windows to resize your partitions... I think it would be a much safer option

Windows Button -> Control Panel ->Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management -> Right click the drive you want to edit -> Shrink Volume