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Snifer: New page: Backtrack3 Final Dualboot Commandline install This tutorial is going to assume a few things.... 1. You have at least 2 neurons in your brain and that there is not to much tar build up ...

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New page: Backtrack3 Final Dualboot Commandline install This tutorial is going to assume a few things.... 1. You have at least 2 neurons in your brain and that there is not to much tar build up ...

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Backtrack3 Final Dualboot Commandline install

This tutorial is going to assume a few things....

1. You have at least 2 neurons in your brain and that there is not to much tar build up between them from smoking tweed.

2. Your already partitioned and ready to go. (If you need a tutorial on partitioning I cant help you)

3. You have heard of a shell and know how to get one going.

Alright so lets begin. I'm going to cover installing backtrack to harddrive to ways. #1 with a /boot partition and #2 where bt is all on one partition. (just a side note. The team is trying to shy away from HD installs and is encouraging USB install which in my humble opinion is the best way to go).Most of this info is from various sources on the wiki and I will attempt to put it into one tutorial for newer members.So you have a fresh HD with 3 partitions..
<pre>sda1=/boot
sda2=swap
sda3= /</pre>
Boot your live cd and open a bash shell and begin.

If your swap is not yet made then do this..(otherwise omit this step)
<pre>bt~#mkswap /dev/sda2
bt~#swapon /dev/sda2</pre><pre>bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack
bt~#mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/backtrack/
bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack/boot/
bt~#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/backtrack/boot/ (note: If you only have one partiton to install backtrack to simply omit this step)
bt~#cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,va r} /mnt/backtrack/ <<< note: there is no space in var. Seems to be a glitch in the matrix
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/</pre>
Now for lilo.
<pre>bt~#chroot /mnt/backtrack/ /bin/bash
bt~#nano /etc/lilo.conf</pre>
Now I like to delete all the bulls**t in the lilo config file so here is what mine would look like. (remember to set your own VGA accordingly )

lba32 boot /dev/sda prompt timeout=60 change-rules reset vga=791 image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/sda3 label = backtrack3_final

Excellent. Save that and then execute lilo (I like to use the verbose flag)
<pre>bt~#lilo -v</pre>
after that exit your chroot enviorment
<pre>bt~#reboot</pre>
Original Thread : ''http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=14751''

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 Backtrack3 Final Dualboot Commandline install
 <br>
 This tutorial is going to assume a few things....
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 <pre>hda1=WindowsXP
 hda2=/boot
 hda3=swap</pre>
 Boot your live cd and open a bash shell and begin.
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 bt~#mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/backtrack/dev/
 bt~#mount -t proc proc /mnt/backtrack/proc/
 bt~#cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/backtrack/boot/</pre>
 Now for lilo.
 <pre>bt~#chroot /mnt/backtrack/ /bin/bash
 bt~#nano /etc/lilo.conf</pre>
 Now I like to delete all the bulls**t in the lilo config file so here is what mine would look like. (remember to set your own VGA accordingly )
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 label = XpSp2
 # read-only
 # Linux bootable partition config ends</pre>
 <br>Excellent. Save that and then execute lilo (I like to use the verbose flag)
 <pre>bt~#lilo -v</pre>
-After that exit your chroot enviorment
+After that reboot system.
 <pre>bt~#reboot</pre>
 Original Thread&nbsp;:&nbsp;''http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=14751''

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 <pre>bt~#mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda2
 bt~#mkswap /dev/hda3
-bt~#swapon /dev/hda3</pre><pre>bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack
+bt~#swapon /dev/hda3
 bt~#mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/backtrack/
 bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack/boot/

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 . You have heard of a shell and know how to get one going.
-Alright so lets begin. I'm going to cover installing backtrack to harddrive to ways. #1 with a /boot partition and #2 where bt is all on one partition. (just a side note. The team is trying to shy away from HD installs and is encouraging USB install which in my humble opinion is the best way to go).Most of this info is from various sources on the wiki and I will attempt to put it into one tutorial for newer members.So you have a fresh HD with 3 partitions..
+Alright so lets begin. I'm going to cover installing backtrack to harddrive to ways. #1 with a /boot partition and #2 where bt is all on one partition. (just a side note. The team is trying to shy away from HD installs and is encouraging USB install which in my humble opinion is the best way to go).Most of this info is from various sources on the wiki and I will attempt to put it into one tutorial for newer members.So you have a HD with 3 partitions..
-<pre>sda1=/boot
+<pre>hda1=WindowsXP
-sda2=swap
+hda2=/boot
-sda3= /</pre>
+hda3=swap</pre>
 Boot your live cd and open a bash shell and begin.
 If your swap is not yet made then do this..(otherwise omit this step)
-<pre>bt~#mkswap /dev/sda2
+<pre>bt~#mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda2
-bt~#swapon /dev/sda2</pre><pre>bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack
+bt~#mkswap /dev/hda3
-bt~#mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/backtrack/
+bt~#swapon /dev/hda3</pre><pre>bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack
 bt~#mkdir /mnt/backtrack/boot/
 bt~#cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,va r} /mnt/backtrack/ &lt;&lt;&lt; note: there is no space in var. Seems to be a glitch in the matrix
 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/</pre>
 Now for lilo.
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 Now I like to delete all the bulls**t in the lilo config file so here is what mine would look like. (remember to set your own VGA accordingly )
 '''/etc/lilo.conf:'''
 <pre># LILO configuration file
 # generated by 'liloconfig'