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Here are the quick steps for installing BackTrack 4 (beta) to an SDHC card on your eeePC.

1. Download BackTrack 4 ISO
2. Create a bootable USB (thumb) drive with UNetBootin
3. Partition the SDHC card for at least one FAT32 partition
   • Partition type 0xC in fdisk
4. Format the FAT32 partition
   • The apt package dosfstools contains mkfs.vfat
5. Mount the new FAT32 partition to /mnt/bt
6. Mount the ISO on loopback
   • mkdir ~/lbt && sudo mount -o loop ~/bt4-beta.iso ~/lbt
7. Copy the boot and BT4 directories to the mounted FAT32 partition
   • sudo cp -Rv ~/lbt/* /mnt/bt
8. As root (sudo), run the script /mnt/bt/boot/bootinst.sh
9. If no errors occur, reboot the computer and hit ESC on boot to boot from the SD slot
10. Make a ‘changes’ directory on the card (alongside boot and BT4) where modifications can be stored
    1. sudo mkdir /mnt/sdb2/changes
11. Edit /mnt/sdb2/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg and modify this block:
    • LABEL BT4
    • MENU LABEL BT4 Beta – Console
    • KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
    • APPEND vga=0×312 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 changes=/dev/sdb2 rw quiet
12. Save the file and reboot

You can start with a simple test to see if it worked.  Add a user for yourself and put yourself in sudoers.  Reboot and if the new user account is still present and has sudo access, then it worked.  I am pretty sure it took longer to type this than it did to install BackTrack.

Tags: BackTrack 4, eeePC, linux

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