Install Backtrack In Windows 8
Welcome back, my hacker novitiates! Many of you have written me that you're having difficulty installing and running on a variety of platforms. No matter if you're using Mac, Linux, or Windows, I strongly recommend you install as your secondary OS, a virtaulization system, or on an external drive.
This particular Linux distribution has many hacking and security tools integrated—including Metasploit. NOTE: BackTrack Is No Longer Supported; Switch to Kali Linux BackTrack is no longer supported by the developers, so we have stopped using it as our primary hacking system here on. Instead, please check out, which is what we now use for most hacks in Null Byte.
How to Download and Install BackTrack in WindowsToday, i'm talking about how to download, install and run BackTrack in Windows Xp, Windows 7and Windows 8. I am curious about working on Backtrack but don't want to remove the Windows 8.1(64 bit) OS.Can anybody help me with the step-by-step process to dual-boot Backtrack.
Of course, you can still read on below if you'd like to get a little information about what BackTrack was and how it worked. This article serves as an introduction to BackTrack, including where to get it, how to install it, and how to navigate and use it. If you want to follow, you need BackTrack—period. Let's start at the very beginning.
No, not the Big Bang, but the beginning of hacking and using BackTrack. The Beginning of BackTrack Hacking is a relatively new discipline. The Internet became commercialized in the mid-'90s, but it wasn't until the late-'90s that e-commerce sites were widely used. So, we can date hacking's birth to less than 15 years ago. Yes, hacking was happening at the, but it didn't thrive until there was big money involved. Back then, hackers developed their own tools and exploits. In the early part of the new millennium, hackers began to release their tools over the Web and share them with others.
Several groups began to collect these tools and either make them available for download from one centralized repository, or began packaging them into a Linux-based CD or DVD. Two of those groups, WHAX and The Auditor Security Group, merged and formed Offensive Security, which released BackTrack 1.0 in February 2006. How to Download & Install BackTrack Okay, enough history. Let's go head and download it. Step 1: Download BackTrack You can download the latest version of BackTrack in its website's. You do not need to actually register—just hit the 'Download' button. When you get to the download screen, this is what you should see.
Choose what version you want. I suggest the latest version (5 R3). Choose what Linux interface you want, GNOME or KDE. This really is a matter of preference, but I'll be running KDE. Choose what architecture you're running (32- or 64-bit). Choose what image type you want. If you're running VMWare, you should use that one.
Otherwise, download the ISO. Choose how you want to download it, either directly (like FTP) or through a torrent (peer-to-peer file sharing). I will assume you filled in all of those fields and you're now downloading. Be patient, it could take awhile. Step 2: Burn a DVD From here on out, I will assume that you've downloaded an.ISO image. Place a blank DVD in your DVD burner, go to your downloads directory, right-click the BackTrack.ISO file, and select burn a disk with either Windows Burner or any other proprietary burning software.
Step 3: Install BackTrack Once we have a successfully burned DVD, we can install BackTrack, but there are a few options:. Install it on a virtual machine in a virtaulization system like,. VMware is my favorite, but it's not free. VirtualBox comes in close second—and it is free. Install it as a dual boot system (this is what I chose). Install it as a portable OS onto an external hard drive, USB flash drive, or bootable DVD. Place the DVD of BackTrack into your DVD tray and reboot your system.
This will run BackTrack as a liveCD, which means that you can use it, but nothing is written to your hard disk. Everything runs in RAM. When you turn off your machine, everything is gone and no changes will have been made to your hard drive and system. This might be a good way to test out BackTrack, but if you really want to become proficient with it—install it on your hard drive. Installing straight to your hard drive lets you to create a dual-boot system. That means you can choose to boot into your regular OS system (in my case, Windows) or BackTrack. For your day-to-day work, you can boot into Windows, and then at night when you want to hack, you can boot into BackTrack.
When you're ready to install it onto your system, simply click on the BackTrack icon in the upper left-hand corner to install it on your hard drive. Then follow the wizard screens asking you for information about your system, etc. You should then have a screen that looks like this! Wanted to say that i been visiting WHT on and off and its been a while since i visited the site.
I found your articles and i must say that you gave me a reason to keep coming back now lol. I am a PC tech but i never venture into the hacking scene, i always thought that only programmers can master stuff like this and well in my case i know nothing about programming. But i find your tutorials to be very helpful in starting to learn basic hacking tricks.
So keep up the good work. Now my question is about Backtrack, the user from the first post said something about Backtrack being 'Scrapped' so would it be smart for me to wait till you post a tutorial on using Kali 1.0? Or just go on and partition my hard drive with Backtrack? I don't know if this matters but I am booting with a program called Unetbootin.
Should I not use this? I used it to write the.ISO to my USB. There is not a graphics mode in the boot menu.
After I go into default mode, Lines of code scroll across the screen (not the whole screen, the backtrack logo is in the background) then just the back track 5 logo all over the screen, wait about 20 seconds and a terminal pops up which loads some more code. 'root@ubntu:' something like this.
Here, I type 'startx' screen is still on but goes blank and nothing happens. I have tried in some other modes and while code is loading, I press 'esc' repeatedly and a Ubuntu 10.04 screen pops up, loads, and goes away. So confused, thank you for your continued responses and support. What all i did: after burning.ISO to a dvd i put it in and rebooted my PC then i selected the default mode option(first) in the backtrack screen that appeared. Then after everything loaded i typed startx; but i got an error: 'fatal error: no screens found giving up xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2):Unable to connect to xserver xinit: No such proccess (errno 3):server error' i tried: 'fix-splash rm /root/.kde/cache-root/icon-cache.kcache rm /root/.kde/cache-root/plasma themeVolatile.kcache rm /root/.kde/cache-bt/icon-cache.kcache rm /root/.kde/cache-root/plasma themeVolatile.kcache' but it still dint work as i got an error: directory not found Reply. I finally succeeded with the installation, got the internet connection opened, nevertheless, BT repeatedly locked up.
I received a message inviting me to update with the 'K Package Kit to version 12.4. This updated 34 applications and took about 2 hours. I was informed that the following applications could not be installed: Magic Tree Se-Toolkit Wifite Ruby 1.8 Beef After the update completed, the system rebooted, but hung up at the opening back track 5 screen. I have booted in safe mode, but was unable to do much. I am now using Windows 7. Should I reinstall Backtrack? I am currently downloading Backtrack, but I'm worried that I won't have the space needed for installation, or to even download for that matter.
In Windows 7 I went to Control Panel, and clicked System Properties at the top. It says that I only have 1GB of Ram, and the download appears to be 3 GBs. Also I have an Acer Aspire One, which means I don't have any type of CD/DVD drive whatsoever.
I know how to go into the BIOS and change the Boot Order so that it will boot from a USB drive, but I'm not sure how to burn an.ISO image to a Flash Drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been wreaking havoc on wifi connections for a couple of years now on several Rooted Androids, but I have long been ready to make the jump to PC hacking. This Aspire is the first laptop I could come up with, I just hope what it lacks won't keep me from Backtrack and Metasploit. It's probably the fact that I'm using the slow ass wifi at the Motel 6 I'm staying at the moment, but it is VERY slowly but surely downloading. I've got 400 Mbs downloaded so far, and I've been downloading for just about 4 hours now, so I'm getting a whopping 100 megs an hour, and the Download Manager says I've got about a day left to go. But needless to say, I know it is well worth the wait.
I really appreciate you alleviating my concerns about the download itself. I was hoping to Dual-Boot it as an OS. But if the lack of burning capabilities would make it that much more difficult, I'm open to a Virtual Environment. Are there serious Pros/Cons to either option, or at the end of the day would I be able to follow your tutorials and eventually hack the world on my own with the same proficiency? Or would Dual-Booting show serious advantages? I really do appreciate you taking the time to help. I'm a quick learner, and I'm ready to get started, and I'm incredibly pleased to have such a proficient teacher from which to learn.
Thanks again. 'When you get to the download screen, this is what you should see:'.Not!! Sends me to a site called mediacribe that wants my credit card info!? Though,the price be $0 for the download with the following statement: 'Why do we ask you for your billing information? Because we are only licensed to distribute our content to certain countries, we ask that you verify your mailing address by providing us with a valid credit card number.
We GUARANTEE that NO CHARGES will be applied for validating your account. No charges will appear on your credit card statement unless you upgrade to a Premium Membership or make a purchase.' WTF!!!NO WAY! All they would need is to verify my IP address on their end. I've got a question with setting up BackTrack. I've got plenty of general computing knowledge, but I've never done anything serious with hacking before.
I managed to set it up in VMware Player easily enough (By the way, is there a problem with VMware Player, why don't you mention it as an option for a virtual machine?) What I'm having trouble with is installing it as a dual boot system on my computer. I've put the ISO on my usb with unetbootin and I can load the basic text versions, but I have trouble getting the GUI up.
When I try running startx it just goes to a black screen, I've left it there for about 10 minutes before stopping it. I know someone else had a problem with this in the comments but they didn't really explain how it got fixed. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks a lot! Having issue running the disk, not sure if the file im downloading is corrupted.
I have a couple of questions if someone could answer to find out what im doing wrong i am running windows 8.1. what type of disk are we burning the OS to? Will a dvd+r work?. after downloading and rebooting there is no icon on the desktop. i tried accessing the BIOS to change the boot operations to run the disk with no success, there are two UEFI options and neither offers a solution I understand this is an incomplete overview but i can provide a detailed summary for anyone willing to address this, thank you Reply. OTW I installed bactrack and when it was going to reboot it too long and the computer discharged nos when i want to win7 it just tales me to the the boot screen again Help Solved: Ran system recovery, which led me to a boot up with black screen, went into safe mode, uninstalled my display adapter rebooted.
I was able to start normally, but the resolution was off, rebooted again, and problem solved. Entered Backtrack and im having problems establishing an internet connection.
Any guide on that? Absolute: BackTrack is based on Ubuntu and Ubuntu has some issues with UEFI and Windows 8. To get BackTrack to boot from a USB, you want to burn your Live USB and before you try to boot from it, look in your BIOS for something that says 'FastBoot/QuickBoot' or 'Intel Smart Response Technology/SRT' and disable it. 'Secure Boot', if you have it, might also have to be disabled. You should be able to install BackTrack as normal from there, but if you reboot and you go straight to Windows 8, then you want to boot from your Live USB again and run Boot-Repair. If you still have problems, let me know. Thanks for your guidance master OTW.
I went in and changed the BIOS bootup from efi to legacy and was all good from there. I was able to install BT overwriting the win 8 i had on completely.
(No loss there i have been thinking of going back to win 7 ult ) for the double boot. The point is once i logged in to the kde interface, the system said kubuntu 12.04 is now out would u like to install.i said hell yes. While installing though, it periodically gave me fail messages like your metasploit may not work etc.should i be worried and reinstall the kde again? Dear Master OTW: Please give instructions on how to partition the HD when installing a dual boot of BT.
The consensus of the research so far is that 1. We use diskmgmt.msc function to shrink the existing install of windows by atleast 30 GB. When booting with the live CD, at the step 4 where it asks for partitioning, we choose manual. Now we have to allocate the free space among /, swap and another directory because by default BT only installs / and swap.Now how much space do we allocate for each of these? Please clarify these issues. Hi OTW I finally managed to get BT onto a disk and it boots from it (I'm sure you'll agree it's about time). Any way, when I click to install it, it asked me whether I want to partition my HDD automatically or whether I want to do it manually.
Naturally I chose automatically but there was an error and now it is only giving me the option to do it manually. Can you guide me through partitioning my HDD manually? Thanks I apologise for the double comment.
The first didn't appear for me so I thought it hadn't sent. Sir I decided to install Kali linux as dual boot to my win 8 pc.
So i created 2 partitions using easeus partition master, one 16.44 gb Primary formatted as ext3 for installing kali, and other logical 4gb swap space. But when i start the installation and reach partitioning step then i'm not able to see the partitions i created using win 8, kali linux shows me the whole 320gb hard disk, and suggest me to create a new empty partitioning table. I want to install kali in the partition i created. When i use gparted from live mode then it shows all the space on the hard disk UNALLOCATED. Earlier when i tried to install it then i was able to see the partitions but then i ended up with no installation of kali on the partition and my win 8 unbootable, and grub error.(Earlier i did not choose any swap space) I want to install kali linux on the 16.44gb partition with swapspace 4gb, What should i do?
Should i redownload the kali iso file. Also what is the difference b/w 32 bit and 64 bit linux distro and which one is better for 2gb ram. Thanak you Pranav Reply. EX1S7 / OTW: Earlier When I tried to install kali then i could see all the partitions, it is only after the installation failed and i was left with the black grub rescue screen.Actually i hadn't selected the swap space earlier, so kali wasn't installed and i put the bootable flag on kali partition in which there were no files. So i couldn't boot to windows, and kali wasn't installed, so i again put the bootable flag on windows partition and Rebuild bcd and did startup repair so i was able to boot into windows but after that kali installation can't recognise my partition table, though i'm able to access all the partitions (except windows one) through live mode.
I tried to install from both inside the live mode and through graphical install doesn't effect much although it said something like 'Kernel didn't match'. Thank you Pranav Reply.
I feel like nothing ever work in my favour even though I tried to follow articles, videos made by IT people like OTW. It's really frustrating. So I am giving attempts to run Kali Linux on VM. Things I did: 1/ Burnt the ISO image onto a USB. 2/ Download VM and made Kali Linux VM. What happen is the first time I tried with mini 64bit Kali, it let me configure when I reboot the PC. However, there are a lot of config choices that I am not familiar with so I skip it and keep starting with win7.
Problem 1: The Kali Linux VM can't find any live file to run from my USB.
Today, i’m talking about how to download, and run in, and. Is a -based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to. I wanted to run on but i never wanted to it directly.
So what i did is that i ed it in a Virtual Environment. Which means you can use and run another while using. This can be achieved through a Software like or VirtualBox. The subject of this thread consist of.
You can download from their Official Website. Now in this post i am going to show you how to 5 using VirtualBox on. Downloading and ing Virtual Box to Run: To run a in a Virtual Environment, We will need a Virtual Machine Tool. And in this case i am using Virtual Box.
Why VirtualBox? Because its free!
And it is a powerful virtualization product. To get Virtual Box, Download from. How to Run Using VirtualBox: 1. To create a virtual machine, let us start the VirtualBox and click the “New” virtual machine button in the tool bar. 2. After clicking on new, the following window appears: 3. Enter any name for the Virtual Machine, For Example: Ironman Then choose the type of OS as and Version as Other. 4. Once you are done, Click Next.
Since my computer holds 6 GB of RAM, I am allocating about 1 GB of it to the Virtual Machine. And don’t worry, this is not permanent allocation. The memory will be taken back by your computer after you shut down Virtual Machine. The template will further guide you to create a virtual hard drive for the virtual machine.
The virtual hard drive is simply a file on your host computer. This file will consist all the data of the OS which you are about to run in VirtualBox. 5. Just select ‘Create a virtual hard drive now’ and Click Create.
Windows 8 Install
6. Then it asks you to choose Hard drive file type. Select the default VDI (Virtual Disk Image) and hit Next. 7. Then after you have to select ‘Dynamically allocated’ and hit Next. 11. In the window above, you have to select Storage, then select Empty. And finally select the disc icon on the rightmost side. Which would open up a drop down menu. 12. Now select ‘Choose a virtual CD/DVD dis file’ and browse to the directory where your ISO or Image file is stored.
Install Backtrack 5 Virtualbox
In this case i will just browse and select BT5.ISO image from my hard drive. And just click OK. 13. Now everything is set up. All you need to do is click ‘ Start‘. 14. After you hit Start, The Virtual Machine boots up. Then it loads up the OS (in this case – 5).
How To Install Backtrack In Windows 8.1
You might need to hit Enter so starts booting.