Had this ISO around for a while but never really got the chance to try it out. This is a note to self. First go to http://forums.remote-exploit.org/backtrack-4-howto/23652-bt4-usb-installation-noob-proof-tutorial.html. If you are planning to install this on a 4gig or less USB stick, the video (http://www.offensive-security.com/videos/backtrack-usb-install-video/backtrack-usb-install.html) tutorial might be the one that you want to follow. That tutorial is on how to install BT to a usb stick from a booted live cd environment. If you want to just install it to a USB from the ISO it self with out burning it to a CD, you can still follow the same steps with only little modifications applied to the process.
- Open up a terminal make sure that you are root
- sudo su (in ubuntu)
- Mount the ISO to some directory
- sudo mkdir /media/iso
- sudo mount -t iso9660 filename.iso /media/iso -o loop
- When coping files copy them from the mounted ISO (duh….)
- Follow the rest of the instructions as it is. Even the grub install should work with out any problems (i did this on a ubuntu box btw).


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