BackTrack Live CD

posted Feb 5th 2006 4:00am by Eliot Phillips
filed under: pcs hacks

backtrack

First Whoppix and Auditor then Whax and now finally everything has come together to form remote-exploit’s latest Live CD project BackTrack. The very first beta of the new system was released today. I downloaded it and tested it on my 600m. It had a nice uncluttered feeling right from the beginning by not offering the scads of boot options found in Knoppix. The system came up really quick and stopped at the command prompt instead of going to a GUI which is another nice touch. The CD also doesn’t automatically bring up the network interfaces since you may have something special in mind. The default windowing environment is KDE, but Fluxbox is included if you’re on a diet. Kismet started up and set up my Intel 2200 card without any assistance. I really think the team has put together a great product and I look forward to future releases. Try it out for yourself.

[thanks steve]

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The toolkits are cool but se HDD installation is rally buggy.

Posted at 9:39 am on Feb 5th, 2006 by Cleaner

For once, I may contribute to the network. When this finishes, I’m making and uploading a torrent to torrentspy and mininova. Having 5 mirrors is great, but not when it gets posted on hackaday.

Posted at 10:49 am on Feb 5th, 2006 by winphreak

You just had to post it on hackaday, didn’t you? ;)

I’ve been looking forward to this all week, and now that I finally check the site to download it, everything is now timing out.

Posted at 12:03 pm on Feb 5th, 2006 by tuckie

there is a torrent in mininova.org

Posted at 12:55 pm on Feb 5th, 2006 by prominator

Thanks for the torrent!

Posted at 1:54 pm on Feb 5th, 2006 by digital_me

http://www.mininova.org/tor/217250

Posted at 2:02 pm on Feb 5th, 2006 by Pedro

Awesome, I was wondering when this was coming out. Thanks!

Posted at 2:18 pm on Feb 5th, 2006 by Eric

I think LiveCDs are one of the greatest ideas in the past few years.

Posted at 3:57 pm on Feb 5th, 2006 by tiuk

These LiveCD’s keep on getting me into trouble with my wife because I have a habit of leaving them running on our pc, but this one I just have to try! (to be nice to their servers I guess I’ll go get the torrent)

Posted at 10:06 pm on Feb 5th, 2006 by airlynx99

Although it recognises my Ralink WiFi-G card as interface ra0, KWiFiManager crashes when I try to associate with my AP. Kismet and iwconfig won’t work, GPS Drive won’t link with my GPS, and Bluetooth support is broken.

It really is deserving of it’s ‘beta’ marking.

Posted at 10:28 pm on Feb 5th, 2006 by felix

There is a dedicated Linux Tracker (for torrents) nfi what the site is tho…

Posted at 12:58 am on Feb 6th, 2006 by Fragged

hackaday and digg is like torture to webserver (and webmasters paying for that bandwidth)

Posted at 12:50 pm on Feb 6th, 2006 by ad

There doesn’t seem to be airforge in there, i’m new to this type of networking, is there a supplied alternative

Posted at 3:02 pm on Feb 6th, 2006 by tazzik

i played arround with the installer, but it didn’t work right. the splash-fix helped a litle bit but hd installtion is not a goot choice jet.
and i’am missing some things like the laptop modules, wich are not implemented.

Posted at 4:49 pm on Feb 6th, 2006 by Cleaner

Is that an Apple keyboard from one of the second or third generation iMacs that they’re using as the desktop image?

Posted at 5:08 pm on Feb 6th, 2006 by alex

new here….very new…what are *.torrent files ?
is there a way for me to read the file. i have one a friend sent and won’t tell me any more.
thanks or any help and i hope i’m not stepping on of line. thanks

Posted at 7:48 pm on Feb 7th, 2006 by kenneth

http://www.remote-exploit.org/ is recieving a denial of service attack (according to their web site).

Having problems with the live CD. Receive Disk Error 32 ax=4200 drive 9F ‘error’. Loaded modules with no success. It’s a beta.

Posted at 2:06 pm on Feb 8th, 2006 by zombie-nation

the console works great, X/kde in whax never liked my laptops video card without a but hacker sawing. but thats why where here.

kenneth [16] download and open torrents files with http://www.utorrent.com/

Posted at 6:56 pm on Feb 11th, 2006 by [sven]

how can i add gui i don’t see any desktop i hope you help me in paokdz@gmail.com
what i have to type?

Posted at 6:25 am on Feb 12th, 2006 by dimos

my butt stings, and remote-exploit is having problems so thank you for torrent info. i need some asprin for my headache and ointment for my butt. anyone ever had a dirty sanchez? thats when your gettin it on and you stick a finger in her butt and stick your brown finger under her nose so it looks like a mustache. ohhh.

Posted at 5:10 pm on Feb 25th, 2006 by christoph

remote-exploit is up again :)

Posted at 3:45 am on May 7th, 2006 by Emilml

do you know if backtrack v1 run with Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG ?
thank’s for the answers :)

Posted at 11:37 am on May 30th, 2006 by cx42

hi all. I just want to ask,where I can find some manual, or one piece how to… those tutorials on remote-exploit are so good, but its better for me, when I can read a book when I`m trying something… I found manual but just for auditor, not for backtrack. please answer me.

Posted at 11:10 am on May 31st, 2006 by vasabi

i have backtrack live. the latest. i cant get past the startx. it takes a very longtime to load. it dont go anywhere.on my p2 it takes like 2-3 minutes to get on the gui but on my 2 week old dell inspiron 6400, it wont go farther then the dragonthing. i logged in and stuff.. i have 1024mb ram. ddr2 duocore 1.6ghz

Posted at 6:14 pm on Aug 19th, 2006 by jason

haha.. fixed it!!! in the bios, change the setting so that it reads the duocore as 1 core..
intel pro 4950 abg still dont work.. no driver

Posted at 1:43 pm on Aug 21st, 2006 by jason

On my Fujitsu Siemens I have this button to activate my wlan. It works fine in Ubuntu, but not in Auditor. Anyone got a sollution? I tried to set my BIOS to wlan always on, but it doesn’t have that option.

Posted at 6:38 pm on Apr 19th, 2007 by sinnadyr

I am a Linux thicko and just done the pen-test cert.
i can’t even get my PPPoe connection started. Please Help

Posted at 9:00 am on Jan 29th, 2008 by Be-Keung

hye can help me configure adsl modem , give me complete tutoria please

Posted at 3:12 am on Apr 22nd, 2008 by zero_a