Installing Backtrack 5 R3 to hard drive and Dual boot with Windows.

Installing Backtrack 5 R3 to
hard drive and Dual boot with
Windows.
Believe it or not - a few of my readers are
having a hard time with this. it's ok. I was
there, many times before. Fortunately,
Backtrack 5 is relatively easy to install to
your hard drive and make bootable. I
remember before Backtrack there was a linux
distribution called P.H.L.A.K. Acronym for
"Professional Hackers Linux Assault Kit".
anyway, it was nearly impossible during the
first few releases to install to the hard disk.
you had to manually partition the drive
yourself, configure the boot loader yourself
and then hope that you don't lose any data
creating the swap and Ext partitions.
Backtrack 5 does it all automatically. I have a
few pictures (taken with a smartphone) to
help guide the way for you.
I highly advise installing backtrack 5 to the
hard drive. the CD loader takes waaay to long
to get anything done and you really don't
need to use a whole lot of hard drive space.
First thing you need is a computer running
backtrack 5 on a live DVD
Then all you have to do is click the Install
Backtrack icon
Starting here:
go through each step
Step 1, 2 and 3 are Language, Time zone and
keyboard layout.
After that, it can be a bit tricky re-sizing and
partitioning the drive
What you want to do here is click"Install
them side by side, choosing between them
each startup"
what this will do is keep your windows or
other OS partitions but resize them, making
available disc space to install backtrack 5 on.
at the bottom of the screen there is a slider -
on the right side slide the slider to desired
size of your backtrack partition. i chose
40.1gb. That's plenty for me. unless you're
going to be keeping a lot of files and saving
music and images, you really shouldn't need
more than 30gb's.
click forward, then continue. the setup will
then install backtrack after partitioning the
drive
Keep in mind, the new boot loader will have
BT5 as first option by default. just hit the
down arrow to select your other os.
Have fun.....