BT4 beta Hard drive install

[purehate]

http://www.offensive-security.com/do...bt4install.pdf

[imported_spankdidly]

Wow. it's been so long.

I had an issue with this

cp --preserve -R \
/{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,boot,etc,lib,opt, sbin,var} /mnt/bt/

In the notes. I changed it to

cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,boot,etc,lib,opt, sbin,var} /mnt/bt/

(THIS IS ONE LINE!!!!!)

and it worked after that. Not sure what that extra SLASH is \

[Citruspers]

Wow. it's been so long.

I had an issue with this

cp --preserve -R \
/{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,boot,etc,lib,opt, sbin,var} /mnt/bt/

In the notes. I changed it to

cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,boot,etc,lib,opt, sbin,var} /mnt/bt/

(THIS IS ONE LINE!!!!!)

and it worked after that. Not sure what that extra SLASH is \

Yes, I too had to remove the extra slash. After that it worked fine

[theprez98]

I believe the \ is supposed to signify a line break. But yeah, it shouldn't be typed.

[Barry]

It's an iTard filter.

[backstage]

thanks PH

[pibe86]

hello, i got a problem

when i write

root@bt:~# lilo -v
LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 19-Feb-2007, and compiled at 14:08:06 on May 15 2008
Ubuntu

Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Fatal: creat /boot/map~: Read-only file system

so i edit /etc/lilo.conf

and 1st line i write

lba32

and i get this error

root@bt:~# lilo -v
LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 19-Feb-2007, and compiled at 14:08:06 on May 15 2008
Ubuntu

Unrecognized token "lib32" at or above line 2 in file '/etc/lilo.conf'

any advice??

plssss help me

[aliendude5300]

Thanks so much for the EXCELLENT install guide! Thanks to you taking the time to put this together, setting up BackTrack 4 in VirtualBox was incredible easy!

[aliendude5300]

I believe the \ is supposed to signify a line break. But yeah, it shouldn't be typed.

When I typed the commands in exactly as seen in the PDF (including the \) it worked fine. There were no problems copying any files whatsoever. I did, however hit the enter key after the \ and then type the rest and press enter again. Maybe this is what the original PDF file intended you to do.

[Citruspers]

hello, i got a problem

when i write



so i edit /etc/lilo.conf

and 1st line i write



and i get this error



any advice??

plssss help me

I don't think you're supposed to type that in the config file. I skipped it, and it worked fine.
If you want to be sure, type it at the command line and press enter, and then edit the config file.