BackTrack

Installing BackTrack on Your Hard Drive

If you run BackTrack from VMware or virtual box, any changes you made would be removed after
rebooting; to solve this issue, we need to install BackTrack on the hard drive.









For this, we need two things:
1. BackTrack Live CD or BackTrack installed on VMware or virtual box.
2. A hard drive with minimum 20 GB free space.

Step 1—Insert the disk into the drive and boot from it. This is what you will see in the beginning:

Step 2—Then you will see the screen root@bt:, where you will have to type the command
“startx”.

Step 3—Now that we have booted into BackTrack, we will install it on our hard drive. Click
on the icon “Install BackTrack” and your installation should start.

Step 4—On the Welcome screen, you will have to select the appropriate language and click
“Forward”.

Step 5—Now select your time zone. Or, if you are already connected to the network, your time
zone will automatically be detected.

Step 6—Now a window to select the desired keyboard layout appears.

Step 7—Next we will have to set the partition size. In most cases we leave it to default and the
entire partition is erased.


Step 8—Now the install summary appears and you just have to click on “Install” and your
work is done.

The installer will take some time to complete, which may be several minutes.

After the installation is complete, you will be prompted to restart your PC and as you reset
your BackTrack, it will be installed to your hard drive.