[LinuxUsers] backtrack dual boot

[Dino K]

The one thing you have to realize about old laptops is the lack of a lot of
capabilities in it's radio, a lot of the auxiliary features for sniffing or
hacking or war driving might not be available to those radios.  Is your
radio an A/B and non G?

You can try puppy as far as small distros.  Have you tried xubuntu?

 -dk

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Paul Saenz <forensicneophyte at gmail.com>wrote:

> My old dell doesn't have capability to boot from usb in the bios. I could
> just keep using my cd drive, but there is a bit of lag when I start up a new
> operation. I do want to be portable, but in order to relieve Dk's concern
> for my using backtrack to sniff or hack on public networks, I think his
> admonitions would be better placed in an email written to a 15  year old
> delinquent, <chuckle> or maybe he confused me with some guy name Dan Tentler
> or something. <chuckle chuckle> On the other hand, thanks for the info about
> partitions dk.
>
> Nevertheless, it seems to me that anything I can do with ubuntu, I should
> be able to do with backtrack. I should be able to make backtrack my main OS
> for now if I wanted to, or would you say that is not a very accurate
> statement? The reason I ask is because anymore, I can't seem to get any of
> the new linux distros (specifically variations of ubuntu) to run on my old
> dell, but backtrack runs. I know I could install debian, or Arch linux and
> get them to run, and I would like to, but I figure it will take some time,
> and I want a linux disto on my laptop that I can use now. I don't have a
> budget for a new laptop now. I have other bigger items that are more
> necessary at this time and my desktop is much more powerful and sufficient
> for all my needs.
>
> Thanks
> Paul
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Peter Manis <peter.manis at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Actually the best option is not installing backtrack at all and storing
>> only the things you need between boots on a usb key.  It has been years
>> since I've touched reiserfs so I can't say much, but I can't think of
>> anything that is going to make a significant difference when used with BT.
>>  Is there a reason you can't just boot off a usb key with BT installed?
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Paul Saenz <forensicneophyte at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, yeah, I knew that reiserfs has been picked up by and
>>> is being maintained by a development team. I had also heard
>>> that it was PITA. Nevertheless, when I looked at multiple web
>>> pages that described installing backtrack recommended using
>>> reiserfs. I don't know why, but I just assumed that reiserfs must
>>> be the best fs for backtrack. I also knew that I could use Ext3.
>>> I guess I didn't realize how much of a PITA that reiser could be.
>>> So I think I will just go along with your reccomendation and use
>>> Ext3. I think I'll wait on Ext 4 until they work the bugs out.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Anyways, I think the main thing I could use help with is finding
>>> a website where I can get the backtrack installer tool.
>>> Anyone?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Chris Louden <chris at chrislouden.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paul,
>>>>
>>>> Using ReiserFS you will definitely learn. Honestly its like going to
>>>> the school of hard knocks. While that is a very worthy thing for
>>>> anyone to do I personally would highly suggest that you use EXT3(old
>>>> faithful), EXT4(speed), or XFS(great for large files). Reisers is a
>>>> completely good, stable file system, but when there is an issue it
>>>> becomes such a PITA. When you are talking about data go with the safe
>>>> bet.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Paul Saenz<forensicneophyte at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Also what is the best tool for formatting to reiserfs? The reason
>>>> > I ask that question is because, although I am not certain, but
>>>> > it seems to me that some fs writers do a more thorough job than
>>>> > others. What that means, I don't exactly know. All I know is that
>>>> > some seem to do it in seconds, while others seem to take a much
>>>> > longer time. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that it would be
>>>> > more likely to lose data with the quick ones.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks
>>>> > Paul
>>>> >
>>>> >
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