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 :)
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
Sorry…I’m so dummy… It don’t work! Thank you again. Dan.
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.
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
Hii
I have BT4, I didn’t find backtrack installer. Could you please help me with it