Installing Backtrack 5 R3 In Virtual Machine Step By Step [ How To ]

                                     

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.

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 vm window


                                



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








HIT ENTER AT THIS POINT


  

type startx to start GUI ( x server )
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
or if you installing backtrack with other OS then specify partition accordingly ( in this tutorial m using virtual hard-drive )

click on forward and click on install

  

wait until it finish installing

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

Reboot and login with default username and password

username : root
password : toor

Change Root password of backtrack 5 R3 installation

root@bt:~#passwd root 
Enter New UNIX Password : 
Retype New UNIX Password : 
passwd : Password Updated Successfully

After Prepare kernel sources now , Install vmware tools
1 : Eject and Disconnect Backtrack if its still mounted
2 : click on vm and choose install vmware tools
3 : if mount automatically then its okay else mount manually

root@bt:~#mkdir /mnt/vmtools
root@bt:~#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/vmtools/
mount : block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
root@bt:~#cp /mnt/vmtools/VMwareTools-8.8.4-743747tar.gz /tmp
root@bt:~#cd /tmp
root@bt:/tmp#tar zxpf VMwareTools-8.8.4-743747tar.gz
root@bt:/tmp#cd vmware-tools-distrib/
root@bt:/vmware-tools-distrib/#perl ./vmware-install.pl

it will ask many question if you are not sure just go with defaults and when it finish installing simply type
fix-splash

root@bt:fix-splash
root@bt:reboot