How to install Backtrack 5 using UNetbootin USB Installer

How to install Backtrack 5 using UNetbootin USB Installer

UNetbootin USB Installer

This installation mode creates bootable USB flash drives and bootable USB Hard Disk Drives; it is a Live USB creator.

• Cross-platform (available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X)
• Non-destructive install (does not format the device) using Syslinux.
• Supports mainstream Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, Linux Mint, Arch Linux,Mandriva, MEPIS, Slackware as well as FreeDOS, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
• Can load a variety of system utilities, such as Ophcrack, BackTrack.
• Other operating systems can be loaded via pre-downloaded ISO image or floppy/hard drive disk image files.
• Automatically detects all removable devices.
• Supports LiveUSB persistence (preserving files across reboots; this feature is for Ubuntu only)Multiple installs on the same device are not supported.

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. 

Required Tools and Preparation

 

1.USB Thumbdrive (Minimum USB Drive capacity 3.06 GB)

2.Backtrack 5 ISO Torrent file, Backtrack Download
3.UNetbootin - A tool to transfer an iso image to a USB drive Download UNetbootin 

Note: you can now save changes made to the system across reboots (persistence).
 

 

• Plug in your USB Drive
• Format the USB drive to FAT32
• Start Unetbootin and select the "diskimage" option, choose a BackTrack 5 ISO file.  
• Select the amount of space to use for persistence in MB
• Select your USB drive and click “OK” for creating a bootable BackTrack USB drive.
• Once rebooted, remember that the default username and password are root / toor.
  
  
   this process will take some minutes
  
  Posted by Umair Haxor