BackTrack in VMWare guide finally updated
The title pretty much says it all, after much procrastinating (read: schoolwork) on my part, I’ve gotten around to updating my guide for installing BackTrack in VMWare Fusion.
If you’ve been just WAITING to install BackTrack, but couldn’t find a guide that was correct for installing the latest VMWare tools, your time has come. Here’s the new, 100% updated guide. As a side note, in the process I’ve upgraded to the latest WordPress and NexGen Gallery plugin. Hooray :)
Tags: backtrack, Linux, Mac OSX, Virtualization, vmware
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm
garrett: huge thanks for your walk through! really been struggling with this for a very long time and you have provided amazing help. i was hoping you may provide some insight into a problem with the symbolic links in step 20 and 21. When prompted for the directory containing the init directories (rc0.d to 6) i know the link is supposed to find the symbolic links in the /etc directory, however i am receiving a msg that this directory does not contain the files. my thought is that there is a problem with the ln -s command. i do see it worked perfectly for you. thinking that adding a -n option may help point the installer in the right direction, but am not sure.
any help would be greatly appreciated. either way it is great you put this out there!
/mons
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Mons has worked this out already, it turned out to be a typo with the the symbolic link creation. The moral of this story is be very careful in step 20! There’s a lot of typing, and it’s all important to get right.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Hi, thank you for your very useful work. Sorry, I don’t write English so good. I have a question: I’ve tried to install backtrack 2 in vmware fusion for mac version 1.1.2. Until step 19 is OK but in step 20 line 3 doesn’t match, so I cannot end the installation. I have an European keyboard. Have you a tips for me? Thank you very much. Dan.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:27 am
That line is where the vmware tools are unarchived. It must be that the latest VMWare Fusion has a new version of the tools. /mnt/hdc_cdrom/ is right, but you need to figure out what the file is now named.
To check, you can “ls /mnt/hdc_cdrom/*.tar.gz”, which will tell you the name of the file to complete the line (replace VMWareTools-7.6.2-62573.tar.gz with whatever you found).
May 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Hi garret, you’re great. :-) I ‘ll be try to do what you say…but I’m not so sure to make it right. Thanks and best regards, Dan.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Sorry…I’m so dummy… It don’t work! Thank you again. Dan.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:04 am
Hi Garret, I’ts once again me, I hope that your very good tutorial will be updated to WMVare version 1.1.3. Waiting fot this, I’ve tried to do what you say, I insert line
“ls /mnt/hdc_cdrom/*.tar.gzâ€, but response is ” ls /mnt/hdc_cdrom/*.tar.gz: No such file directory”
I cannot work with backtrack…sniff. Did you have another idea? Thanks and excuse-me to disturb you. Regards, Dan.
September 5th, 2009 at 10:51 am
i found a very god site, the site is a german site.
i think the help ist very god, screenshots and pdf for installing backtrack on a pc, look at:
http://backtrack.1rss.de