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content How to Install Backtrack 5 Updated: December 22, 2012 Download the Backtrack 5 ISO Setting up a Virtual Machine Installing Backtrack 5 Backtrack Login (Optional) Creating a Bootable USB Drive Download the Backtrack 5 ISO Head over to: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ Then click the download button. Backtrack-Linux Download Page After that, you will be able to pick the version of backtrack that you want. I a m going to recommend Backtrack 5 R3 since it is the most up-to-date. The window manager is up to you, but I am going to use gnome. Since I will be using backtra ck in a virtual machine, the 32 bit version will be fine. We want the ISO becaus e we can use it on a DVD, a USB flash drive, and install on a virtual machine. D irect download or torrent download is up to you. The file is little over 3 GBs, so it may take some time depending on your internet speeds. Backtrack Download Setting up a Virtual Machine A virtual machine (VM) is the software implementation of a physical computer. In other words, it s having another computer on your current computer. If you have n ever used a virtual machine it is a good time to start. VMs are excellent when i t comes to practice labs which we will get to in another section. To start, you re going to need to get VM software. There are many out there, but I will list a few popular ones. VMware Workstation 9 (Windows/Linux) $249.00 USD VMware Player (Windows/Linux) Free VirtualBox (Windows/Mac/Linux) Free Whichever VM software you go with, make sure it has a way to network with other VMs. If you don t want to spend the money, go with VirtualBox. If you plan to get serious with penetration testing, you might want to consider getting a VMware Wo rkstation license. It is full of useful tools and goodies such as sharing VMs an d remote access and easy to work with. I will be use VMware Workstation, but these programs are very similar in functio n. You shouldn t have trouble following along if you are using something else. After everything is installed and running, click VM Install 1 Next you re going to select 5 ISO. Installer disc image file then browse for the backtrack Create new virtual machine .

Vm Install 2 Select the operating system as linux, and the version as Ubuntu. VM Install 3 Give the virtual machine a name such as Backtrack 5 R3 and select a location for w here you want to save the virtual machine files. VM Install 4 When asked how much you want the virtual disk drive to be, you want at least 25 GB. This will be the most demanding requirement of Backtrack 5. I went and used 40 GB for my virtual machine. Although the backtrack-linux wiki says you need at least 20 GB, I found you will run out of space by the time you install updates or any other software. Then, you will have the option of storing the virtual dis k as a single file, or split into multiple files. Creating a virtual disk as a s ingle file will allocate all of the space right away. Splitting into multiple fi les means the drive files will grow as you need them. So if your hard drive spac e is limited on your host system, go with multiple files. If you have a massive drive, and not worried about space, go with a single file. VM Install 5 And that s it! The virtual machine is ready to go. I left mine at 1 GB of ram, if you are limited of memory, you can change this in the virtual machine settings. The recommended minimum memory is 512 MB, however you can try lower if you need to. VM Install 6 Power on the virtual machine and you will be ready to install Backtrack. Installing Backtrack 5 If you are installing on a hard drive, you will need to burn the Backtrack 5 ISO on to a DVD or a USB Drive. For directions on installing to a USB Drive, see he re (link). First turn on your machine, then insert your DVD or USB Drive. Then press the ke y that allows you to select your boot drive. You may have to go into the bios to enable this. Most often, F12 will work. Select either your DVD drive, or your U SB Drive to boot from it. You should see a screen like this: VM Install 7 After a few moments, you will see Backtrack Live CD menu. Press enter on Backtra ck Text Default Boot Text Mode. VM Install 8 Wait about 10 seconds, and you will come to Backtrack shell console. Type the co mmand startx to load the GUI. VM Install 9 After another few moments, you will come to the desktop of Backtrack. Double cli ck on the Install Backtrack to begin the install process. BT Install 1

After you select your time zone, and language, you then have to partition your d rive. If you are using a virtual machine, go ahead and use the whole drive. If y ou are dual booting, you will have to specify your partition for your two operat ing systems. BT Install 2 Continue through the installer, and then click finish. Backtrack will then insta ll on to your system. This process takes about 10-15 minutes. BT Install 3 After it is finish, restart your system. BT Install 4 Backtrack 5 Login After restarting, you will come to a login screen like this: BT Log 1 The default root name for Backtrack is root and the password is toor . After typing i n the root username and password, you will come back to the Backtrack shell. Typ e startx to enter the GUI desktop. Creating a Bootable USB Drive Required Items: A USB flash drive with minimum space of 4 GB. Backtrack 5 ISO UNetbooin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ UNetbootin is a program that allows you to create bootable USB drives for linux distros and Windows. UNetbootin will download the distribution or use an ISO fil e you selected from your hard drive. Once UNetbootin is downloaded you can run it by double clicking (Windows) Plug in your USB Drive. Start UNetbooin and select the diskimage option, then select your Backtrack 5 ISO. Select your USB Drive, then click OK . WARNING: This will format your USB Drive and remove all previous data. Now you should be able to boot off of your USB Drive with Backtrack 5. unetbootin 41 THOUGHTS ON HOW TO INSTALL BACKTRACK 5 Santos on January 28, 2012 at 11:27 pm said: Just where is the facebook like link ? Reply ? LostNovice on January 31, 2012 at 6:48 pm said: Huh, didn t think of it. But one shall be added good sir. Reply ? sukumar

on July 12, 2013 at 6:56 am said: i have a problem,when change dos to gui using startx command. after typing startx, it does not load a gui.the pc is hanged up.and the capslock led is blinking Reply ? LostNovice on February 17, 2012 at 6:45 am said: Thank you! Just remember to come back to check for updates. I have a lot more pl anned! Reply ? desmond on February 24, 2013 at 3:50 pm said: sorry for the trouble,i m still a beginner,bt is a great software but i install it on virtual box ,why is it stuck at the bios page,f 12 also no use ,i m using windows xp service pack 3 ,4gb ram,Please help and thank you. Reply ? LostNovice on February 25, 2013 at 5:41 pm said: Hello and welcome! With VirtualBox, make sure the Backtrack ISO is mounted to the virtual drive bef ore booting the virtual machine. If you go to the settings of the virtual machin e you created, you should see Storage . Under storage look for CD/DVD Device, from there you can browse for the Backtrack iso and select it. From there just start your VM and BT should boot. If you have any further questions please ask! Reply ? Harkirat on I ve made a the Default tried other March 8, 2013 at 9:01 am said: BT5 R1 bootable USB using Unetbooti But when I boot it, after selecting boot mode, it hangs at page where some settings are loading. I also things but I m facing same problem. What can I do?

Reply ? patric adimo on March 12, 2013 at 12:30 pm said: hi thx 4 all the explaing up there this is the best work i ve watched im having a problem when i boot the back track and choose the Backtrack Text Default Boot Text Mode the black screen says this kernel requires an x86-64 cpu but only detected an i686 cpu unable to boot please use a kernel appropiate for your cpu Reply ? Kea on March 30, 2013 at 10:16 am said: I guess you are running a 32 bit operating system and you probably downloaded ba cktrack 64 bit. There s no way around this than to get a new copy of backtrack 32 bit or installing a new 64 bit operating system Reply ? Arsal on August 3, 2013 at 12:13 pm said: I ve the same problem, I m using 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate, now what should I do???

Reply ? Aravindan on March 21, 2013 at 12:15 pm said: How to connect to a wired network(dialup or broadband) in backtrack 5 r3?????i m r eally stuck on this occassion plz resolve my problem Reply ? Rehan on April 1, 2013 at 1:10 am said: hello there thanks for the tutorial. I have a very unusual problem. I have downl oaded backtrack 5 r3 GNOME 64 BIT ISO and when I search for the iso image but I can t find any. When I enter into backtrack folder on my desktop w here I have downloaded it, I see sub-folders called .disk, casper, isolinux, pre seed etc and some files. so can you please help me. As you know if I can t give th e virtual machine the iso image it will not boot. Reply ? Hackulus on April 1, 2013 at 1:25 am said: Hello Rehan, you must download imgburn at imgburn.com then once fineshed install ing it you must choose create iso image from that folder thx Reply ? nacer on April 8, 2013 at 11:03 am said: I m also having a problem please help Reply ? Ikky on April 4, 2013 at 12:53 pm said: Hello im new to back track anyone help me here.. Reply ? Ikky on April 4, 2013 at 12:57 pm said: hey hackulus do u have messenger i need some help if you dont mind.. Reply ? wasif on April 23, 2013 at 12:57 am said: hi i can not enter the password but i can enter the login after entring login i make a hit on enter button from keybord and asking me password but it not allow me to enter password..what problem i can not understand!! Reply ? Anonymous on May 20, 2013 at 2:06 am said: Hello, with backtrack, when you type your password, notice that you won t see what your typing so just fill in your password off head enter Reply ? elmar on April 28, 2013 at 6:23 pm said: Descargue el bt5, pero lo descargo en Winrar, he probado con el Virtual Box, VMw are Workstation yno funciona, recordando que transforme el winrar de 2.39 GB a I SO, con el programa ULTRAISO, mas aun prob el Virtual CloneDrive para reparar err ores y no corre ni con el Winrar descargado, ni convertido a ISO, me sale este m ensaje: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received. PXW-M0F:Exiting Intel PXE ROM Operating System not found Necesito una gran gua y ayuda, departe de ustedes.. Saludos cordiales.

Reply ? Rabin on April 29, 2013 at 7:27 am said: How long time it takes to appear Install Backtrack 15 minutes but nothing appear. Please help.

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Reply ? Rabin on April 29, 2013 at 7:32 am said: How long time it takes to appear Install Backtrack on Desktop. I waited more than 15 minutes but nothing appear. Please help. I m using it on Window 7 Reply ? mazinote on May 1, 2013 at 6:50 am said: I face same problem it stuck on word Loading any idea ?? Reply ? jeorgie on May 9, 2013 at 4:19 pm said: i have the same problem too. Reply ? syrnn on May 10, 2013 at 6:59 am said: how to install backtrack using vmware if after i download, the backtrack is in 7 z format not in iso format Reply ? Anonymous on June 17, 2013 at 1:52 pm said: DL daemon tools i think it should help.. Reply ? Kidzwow on May 14, 2013 at 2:34 am said: can you still open windows 7 even you install backtrack 5r3 using usb? Reply ? garatol on May 28, 2013 at 7:00 pm said: im booting this on a Ubuntu machine I get to muy bios I select usb and all I get to the black creen but it sas after the whole peter Anvin it sas no DEFAULT or UI configuration found! helpppp Reply ? Khkoded on May 30, 2013 at 1:20 pm said: @kidsnow you can still use ur windows OS, as a matter of fact am using 4OS on ma system Win7, Ubuntu, Backtrack5r3, Kali linux and I still use hackademia as my se rver. All are connected to the server. But I will advuse u to knw what u are doi ng, when installing backtrack, cos if tomorrow u remove backtrack from ur system , you will have to repair ur MBR Master Boot Record . Its more adviseable to use Vm ware player. Reply ? Mr on June 1, 2013 at 5:11 am said: I cant write password on bt5 r3. Help? Reply ? Anonymous on June 17, 2013 at 1:54 pm said:

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password not appear when u type it maybe it will help U.. Reply ? Juan Carlos on June 13, 2013 at 11:14 pm said: Is anybody else getting Ubuntu 10.2' loading screen during boot? Also Ubuntu 10.2 on Grub-2? I made the live usb with Unetbootin on Fedora 17 Reply ? George on June 28, 2013 at 6:51 am said: I need to ask something important:Any advise on how to set the number of cores I want my virtual machine to use? Reply ? syarz on July 7, 2013 at 2:23 pm said: i tried a lot using UNetbootin to install backtrack 5 R3 on my hard drive but i face the same problem as ever.it shows the message like boot error after restart ing my computer.i am using windows xp sp3 if anybody have solved the same proble m plz share with me. i have also tried using virtual box VirtualBox-4.2.12-84980 -Win. i used the same method as written above but after selecting the iso image file but stucked on boot screen . Reply ? axl on July 16, 2013 at 7:42 pm said: sir error 5 while im install backtract Reply ? Enamul Khan on July 22, 2013 at 12:02 pm said: I give username root and password is toor but it is not take .Only i able to wri te username .I can not write password.Why? Reply ? Mohamed on August 6, 2013 at 4:39 am said: You Wont See The Password Just Type : toor and press ENTER Reply ? dave on July 22, 2013 at 3:11 pm said: Ok I went through the whole song and dance of installing BT5r3 to a San Disk 4 g ig flash drive but it wouldn t boot. However due to my prior experience with BT3 I happened to remember that a boot file might be present in BT3 pry ogram file. S o I double clicked it and the flash stick boots. Now I don t know why you folks do things the way you choose but doesn t this smack of geek snobbery or at least tha t flavor. I wouldn t treat my clients that way. C mon now guys what s goin on. Who was the wise guy that said all things being equal, the simplest explanation is usua lly correct. I mean really now . . . Duh ! ! ! ! ! Reply ? boughrousama on July 25, 2013 at 7:12 pm said: si installe backtrack 5r3 sur virtualbox est ce que il va enlever windows 8 Reply ? Mohamed on August 6, 2013 at 4:41 am said: Cool ThanXxX for Teaching Us :) Reply ? Kennedy on August 12, 2013 at 6:43 pm said: Sir, i m trying to install it on my laptop, ACER 5742G, after typing startx from the root, the screen turn to black and the HDD indicator stops, i m waiting a bunch o f several hours on it but still nothing appeared.

Sir, Admin, can you help me with this kind of stuff Advanced thank you for your help Sir Admin Reply ? Fazzy on August 18, 2013 at 4:53 am said: when ever i start intall back track and make 3 add of root/ 10000 swap area ext2 5000 and ext4 30000 after creating its gives error unmount partition why ? it g ives error how to solve it? Reply ? Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Name Email Website Comment reCAPTCHA challenge image Privacy & Terms Get a new challenge Get an audio challenge Help Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. FACEBOOK LIKE GOOGLE+ PAGES Backtrack Basics Backtrack Wireless Blog Metasploit Tutorial: Introduction Programming: Getting Started Scripting Privacy Policy Proudly powered by WordPress