Andrew NugrohoThis is life, it's a test, it's a game…

It’s not official site of installation backtrack4 beta, but it’s just my little note installation the new release backtrack. you can visit the official site here. Ok, it’s my personal experience install and use the New release from this distro, Now, the new version (4) using debian base, it’s more user friendly rather than previous base (IMO).
I wan t install backtrack4 on my /dev/hda2. this’s step by step what am doing:
first, remove the previous partition on /dev/hda2, am using cfdisk for tool partition.

root@bt~ # cfdisk

cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.14)

                                           Disk Drive: /dev/hda

                                  Size: 60026361856 bytes, 60.0 GB

                       Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 9729
Name     Flags               Part Type          FS Type           [Label]        Size (MB)

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

hda1      Boot                   Primary          Linux ReiserFS                    10001.95

hda2                                Primary          Linux ReiserFS                    10001.95

hda3                                Logical           Linux swap / Solaris              5003.89

hda4                                Logical           Linux ext3                            20003.89

hda5                                Logical           Linux ext3                            29512.31

the next step is format the new partition on reiserfs format

root@bt # mke2fs /dev/hda2

in my previous installation, i had swap partition on my machine, so i doesn't need create swap filesytem again. I have a little different from the original instructions from the official site. in the original instructions that use 2 partitions for file system and boot it, but for the installation I only use one file system.

root@bt:~# mkdir /mnt/bt
root@bt:~# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/bt/
root@bt:~# mkdir /mnt/bt/boot
root@bt:~# mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/bt/boot
root@bt:~# cp --preserve -R \/{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,boot,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/bt/
root@bt:~# mkdir /mnt/bt/{mnt,tmp,proc,sys}
root@bt:~# chmod 1777 /mnt/bt/tmp/
root@bt:~# mount -t proc proc /mnt/bt/proc
root@bt:~# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/bt/dev/
root@bt:~# chroot /mnt/bt/ /bin/bash

idon't need lilo for boot loader, i prefer grub better than lilo (IMO), and the last. add the grub ubuntu configuration(on /dev/hda1) for this new installation:

root@bt~ # mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
root@bt~ # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/ubuntu
root@bt~ # vim /boot/grub/menu.lst

and then i add the backtrack configuration:

#### start of Backtrack ####
title BackTrack 4 Beta (2.6.28.1)
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 ro
#### end of Backtrack ####

the last, restart system

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