Installing BT3 on VMware Workstation (Video Tutorial)

[arnoudjansen]

Hi when I use:

fdisk /dev/sda

I get:
Unable to open /dev/sda
I followed all steps on the video!!

[balding_parrot]

Hi when I use:

fdisk /dev/sda

I get:
Unable to open /dev/sda
I followed all steps on the video!!

Is sda your hard drive, or is it sdb, hda, hdb etc etc ?

[arnoudjansen]

It is hdc so I guess it should then be:

fdisk hdc

Gonna try it out now thanx

[arnoudjansen]

I now get the following:

You will not be able to write the partition table.
Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

Command (m for help):

When I try mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdc It won't work!!

[arnoudjansen]

Okej I fixed it.
I made an extra virtual IDE hard disk(the other was SCSI). And now it works fine.
Thnx anyway

[sepiid]

hows it going?

i am having a bit of trouble with the install on vmware.

i run through and do all the fdisk stuff (my drive /dev/hda)
runs fine.

then do the mkfs and mkswap works dandy

create the mount point and then mount. seems great so far.

i go to the install backtrack program and make sure i have the second option pointed to "/mnt/backtrack" which is where i mounted /dev/hda1

then changed to full install and removed the check mark.

i then use the poweroff cmd. and remove the iso from the virtual cd.

repower on the VM and nothing. blank. nada. just a cursur that doesnt blink in the uper left corner.

i have deleted and recreated the process many times with no success. any idears?

thanks.
Sepiid

[geocine]

dude it stops at 100% loading without showing the video.. i just want to know how to install the vmware-tools for bt3 when it comes to the linux kernel directory question.

[frezasaga]

video not working can watch it..............

[banana88]

Thanks for the sweet tutorial