BackTrack 3 Final - Release Information Released yesterday exclusively on pauldotcom.com Muts, Martin and I have slaved for weeks and months, together with the help of many remote-exploit'ers to bring you this fine release. A SLAX-based live CD with a comprehensive collection of security and forensics tools Offensive Security has released BackTrack 5 R3, an updated version of the project's Ubuntu-based distribution with a collection of security and forensics tools.
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One year (and a bit) ago i wrote a post on. Recently the beta version of BackTrack 3 is released and the guys from BackTrack even made a special version to install on a 1GB USB stick:. Among the many uses of BackTrack are:. Penetration Testing.
Digital Forensics. Zero Trace usage of a computer (harddisk is untouched). Wireless sniffing, WEP crack, wardriving, etc. Listening to SomaFM radio. Cracking various passwords. and much more. The USB stick version fully utilizes the space available to cram it with tools, a total of 953 MB.
Also this version includes a script to make the USB stick bootable, so it’s almost childplay now to make your own hacker toolkit keychain. Here is a step by step howto. Step 1 Mount a 1GB USB stick. If your system does not automatically mount the filesystem, have a look with dmesg tail and mount it by hand, e.g. Mkdir FF; mount /dev/sdc1 /FF Wipe all info from the stick: rm -rf /FF/. and check there is enough space available: root # df -h /FF Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdf1 972M 4.0K 972M 1% /FF You will need at least 953 MB there.
Step 2 Download BT3 from the or use one of the to download with your browser, wget, curl, whatever. Check the checksum with md5sum or sha1sum and if you’re paranoid, use both. Extract the contents onto the USB stick: root # cd /FF root /FF# unrar x /tmp/bt3b141207.rar root /FF# ls -l drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-12-13 18:50 boot drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-12-13 18:22 BT3 -rw-rw-r- 1 root root 284 2007-12-13 19:13 INSTALL.txt Read the extensive installation information root /FF# more INSTALL.txt USB Install: Copy the 'boot' and 'BT3' Directory to the root of your USB device. Under Linux, change directory to the freshly copied /boot directory on the USB device.
MAKE sure your're in the 'boot' directory on the USB device! Run./boostinst.sh unmount usb device. Step 3 And do the deed: root /FF# cd boot root /FF/boot#./bootinst.sh -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Welcome to Slax boot installer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This installer will setup disk /dev/sdc1 to boot only Slax. Master boot record (MBR) of /dev/sdc will be overwritten. If you use /dev/sdc to boot any existing operating system, it will not work anymore.
Only Slax will boot from this device. Press any key to continue, or Ctrl+C to abort. Press return, and: Flushing filesystem buffers, this may take a while. Setting up MBR on /dev/sdc. The Master Boot Record of /dev/sdc has been updated.
Activating partition /dev/sdc1. No partition table modifications are needed.
Updating MBR on /dev/sdc. Setting up boot record for /dev/sdc1. Disk /dev/sdc1 should be bootable now. Installation finished.
Read the information above and then press any key to exit. All that is left to do is reboot your system and boot from the USB stick.
On Dell laptops you might have to press F12 to select the boot medium. If everything went well, you will be greeted by the boot image: Have fun & stay safe.