BackTrack Live USB Install

This method of getting a live install to a USB drive is the simplest available using Unetbootin. Note that we will format the USB drive and erase its contents.

1. Plug in your USB Drive (Minimum USB Drive capacity 2 GB)
2. Format the USB drive to FAT32
3. Download Unetbootin from http://www.filefactory.com/file/c12cafe/n/unetbootin-windows-241.rar
4. Start Unetbootin and select diskimage (use the backtrack-final ISO)
5. Select your USB drive and click “OK” for creating a bootable BackTrack USB drive
6. Log into BackTrack with the default username and password root / toor.

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Download BlackTrack 5 R1

BackTrack 5 R1 is now available for download. This version is an update release to the original BackTrack 5 operating system released on May 10th, 2011, and it brings over 100 bugs fixes, over 30 new scripts and 70 tools updated, and lots of other general improvements. 

Overview

Backtrack is a Linux based Open-source operating system primerly used by security professionals and hackers community. Backtrack is intended for all audiences from the most savvy security professionals to early newcomers to the information security field. If u are about to use blacktrack first time, then i advice you to make a live cd of your blacktrack version.

  
Key features of BackTrack 5 R1: (August 18th, 2011)
Here are some key features of BackTrack 5 R1:

• Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Linux kernel 2.6.39.4 (with wireless injection patches)
• KDE 4.6
• GNOME 2.6
• 32-bit, 64-bit and ARM support
• Metasploit 3.7.0
• Forensics mode (a forensically sound instance)
• Stealth mode (without generating network traffic)
• Initial ARM image of BackTrack (for Android-powered devices)
• ...and many more!

How to download BackTrack 5 R1:
Visit http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ to download blacktrack 5 webpage.

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