Backtrack Vmware Workstation

Posted on 23-04-2021 by admin

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Goto VMware player’s download page and download VMware Player OR if you prefer theVMware Workstation, download it. (workstation is paid one of course!) Install VMware. Now I’m not going into detail for how to install it but definitely here is a link for you to checkout for installing VMware Workstation. VMware player installation will be.

In this tutorial i will show you how to install Backtrack 5 R3 which is recently released by offensive security team . if you’ve previously installed backtrack then you might be familiar with backtrack installations . its easy and simple just follow given simple steps.

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Backtrack is a Linux distribution distributed as a Live CD which consist of Linux based toolset geared toward network security and security exploits. It includes a large collection of individual tools each designed to perform specific functions, like WEP cracking, SQL injection and HTTP exploits.

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Stage 1

Requirements
1 : Download backtrack ISO from here
2 : Download VMware Workstation or VMplayer
3 : Install any of above

Stage 2

Installation

1 : Create A new virtual machine

2 : choose installer ISO ( choose backtrack 5 ISO )

3 : choose Linux as your guest operating system type and Ubuntu as version

4 : give a name and location of your backtrack VM

5 : Specify virtual hard drive space ( 20 GB is good enough )

then click finish from ready to create virtual machine window

hit enter to go boot screen then choose default boot text mode and hit enter

click on Install backtrack icon or open terminal type sh -c “ubiquity”

and continue like normal installation choose keyboard type and provide location info

if you are installing just backtrack then go normally and erase and use entire disk

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or if you installing backtrack with other OS then specify partition accordingly ( in this tutorial m using virtual hard-drive )

wait until it finish installing

it will take up-to 30 minutes depend on your system

Stage 3

Network Configuration
virtual box guest audition installation
VMware tools installation

I’ve had a problem with the image size that is made available by http://www.backtrack-linux.org/. The VMware image is made as a growable vmdk file. This means that is has 15 files of max 2GB. So when I want to convert this image to ESX I will need 30 GB free disk space and that was my biggest problem. I’ve only had 10 GB.

The other thing was when I want to install a new Backtrack on ESX I need 10 GB free disk space for installing vmware-tools. So the easiest way for me is to just backup/restore everything to a new 7 GB disk of the vmware workstation image. And next I will describe how I did this.

First of all download the vmware workstation image form the following link:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/

Oke, next I add a new hard disk to the VM of a specific size you will need.

Then you can power on the VM.

When booted logon with the root user en do the following:
# fdisk /dev/sdb

# n
# p
# 1
# default <enter>
For me the next step was the size I needed:
# +6G

# n
# p
# 2
# default <enter>
For me I used the rest of the size available
# default <enter>

# a
# 1

# t
# 2
# 82 (for swap)

# w

After we did this we will have to prepare the partitions for copy the file.

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1

# mkswap /dev/sdb2
# swapon /dev/sdb2

Now we will need to mount the partitions:

# mkdir /mnt/bt
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/bt

Now we’re going to copy the file system to the new disk and add the missing directories: (keep in mind that there are 2 – – before preserve)

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# cp –preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,boot,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var,srv} /mnt/bt
# mkdir /mnt/bt/{mnt,tmp,proc,sys}
# chmod 1777 /mnt/bt/tmp

The next step is to edit the /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to prepare the booting process to mount everything to the correct disk. In these file you will see that everything is mounted with a UUID number. So we first have to figure out what kind of new number the new disk has so we can copy this number and replace it in the files I just described.

To make it easier for yourself start the gui so you can cut & paste the UUID number:

# startx

Open a console and try to find :

# vol_id /dev/sdb1

Select and copy the UUID number and do as follow:

# vi /mnt/bt/etc/fstab

Replace the UUID of / (root) with the new one and save and quit :wq

# vol_id /dev/sdb2

(you can also use blkid instead of vol_id)

Select and copy the UUID number and do as follow:

# vi /mnt/bt/etc/fstab

Replace the UUID of swap with the new one and save and quit :wq

Now we need to edit the boot-loader menu file /boot/grub/menu.lst

# vol_id /dev/sdb1

Select and copy the UUID number and do as follow:
# vi /mnt/bt/boot/grub/menu.lst

Edit all UUID numbers of the old disk for the new one and save and quit.

After we did this we can shutdown the machine.
# shutdown -P now

Now we can remove the original disk and mount the backtrack iso to the cd-rom drive.

Start the VM and boot from the cd-rom drive.

Logon with root and do the following:

# grub
# find /boot/grub/stage1
# root (hd0,0)
# setup (hd0,0)
# quit
# reboot (unmount backtrack iso)

If you done everything correctly as I did it should be running now.

When everything is working you can shutdown the VM again and download the VMware converter. It is free so you can download it without any problem. See the following link:

When installed just use the wizard for converting you vmware wokrstation to an ESX server. This is done so easily I don’t go to explain the whole process. I think you can figure this out yourself. Otherwise google it.

Grtz,

..NiiB..

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