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BackTrack 4 Beta

The Perfect Hard Disk Install v2

BackTrack 4 Beta does not contain an installer in it yet. We’ve compiled this cookbook for getting the “perfect” BT4 install up and running quickly. The assumption is that you are installing BT4 on an empty disk (/dev/sda in our case). Make sure to adjust this accordingly if needed.

1. Start by partitioning the disk. Create 3 partitions for boot, swap and root.

root@bt:~# fdisk /dev/sda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1044. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-1044, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-1044, default 1044): +128M

Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 2 First cylinder (10-1044, default 10): Using default value 10 Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (10-1044, default 1044): +1024M

Command (m for help): n Command action

e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 3 First cylinder (142-1044, default 142): Using default value 142 Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (142-1044, default 1044): Using default value 1044

Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 2 Hex code (type L to list codes): 82 Changed system type of partition 2 to 82 (Linux swap /