Taken from http://forum.hackfromacave.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=185
Update to Backtrack 5
Postby .ronin ยป Sat May 14, 2011 5:17 pm
The following is a guide for updating Katana from Backtrack 4 to Backtrack 5 in Katana 2.0. (This method was tested on Backtrack 5, 32 bit, KDE).
1) Uninstalling Backtrack 4:
Simply delete the content of the /backtrack directory in the root of the Katana drive. This includes the "hidden" .disk directory in that folder. (DO NOT delete the backtrack folder itself.)
2) Open the bt.cfg file in /boot/menu directory and replace the content of the file with the following:
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PROMPT 0
#TIMEOUT 90
DEFAULT /boot/vesamenu.c32
MENU BACKGROUND /boot/wallpaper.png
MENU WIDTH 30
MENU MARGIN 0
MENU ROWS 10
MENU HELPMSGROW 22
MENU TIMEOUTROW 26
MENU TABMSGROW 27
MENU CMDLINEROW 27
MENU HSHIFT 24
MENU VSHIFT 0
menu color screen 37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color border 30;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color title 1;36;44 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
#menu color unsel 37;44 #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
menu color unsel 37;44 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color hotkey 1;37;44 #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
#menu color sel 7;37;40 #ffffffff #00000000 none
menu color sel 7;37;40 #ffffffff #00000000 none
menu color hotsel 1;7;37;40 #ff808080 #ff60CA00 none
menu color scrollbar 30;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color tabmsg 31;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color cmdmark 1;36;40 #ffff0000 #00000000 none
menu color cmdline 37;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color pwdborder 30;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color pwdheader 31;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color pwdentry 30;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color timeout_msg 37;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color timeout 1;37;40 #ffaaaaff #00000000 none
menu color help 37;40 #aaaaaa00 #00000000 none
menu color msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #00000000 std
MENU TITLE KATANA - Backtrack 5
LABEL DEFAULT
MENU LABEL Text
KERNEL /backtrack/casper/vmlinuz
APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=/backtrack/casper/initrd.gz text cdrom-detect/try-usb=true live-media-path=backtrack/casper splash vga=791--
TEXT HELP
More about currently selected:
Default Boot Text Mode
ENDTEXT
LABEL STEALTH
MENU LABEL Stealth
KERNEL /backtrack/casper/vmlinuz
APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=/backtrack/casper/initrds.gz text cdrom-detect/try-usb=true live-media-path=backtrack/casper splash staticip vga=791--
TEXT HELP
More about currently selected:
No Networking enabled
ENDTEXT
LABEL FORENSICS
MENU LABEL Forensics
KERNEL /backtrack/casper/vmlinuz
APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=/backtrack/casper/initrdf.gz text cdrom-detect/try-usb=true live-media-path=backtrack/casper splash vga=791--
TEXT HELP
More about currently selected:
No Drive or Swap Mount
ENDTEXT
LABEL NODRM
MENU LABEL noDRM
KERNEL /backtrack/casper/vmlinuz
APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=/backtrack/casper/initrd.gz text cdrom-detect/try-usb=true live-media-path=backtrack/casper splash nomodeset vga=791--
TEXT HELP
More about currently selected:
No DRM Drivers
ENDTEXT
LABEL debug
MENU LABEL Debug
KERNEL /backtrack/casper/vmlinuz
APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper initrd=/backtrack/casper/initrd.gz cdrom-detect/try-usb=true live-media-path=backtrack/casper text--
TEXT HELP
More about currently selected:
Safe Mode
ENDTEXT
LABEL back
MENU LABEL ..
KERNEL /boot/vesamenu.c32
APPEND /boot/menus/main.cfg
TEXT HELP
Back to Main Menu
ENDTEXT
3) Download Backtrack 5 from http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/
4) Copy over the files for Backtrack 5.
In Windows: use 7zip (Included in the Katana Tool Kit) to extract the content of the Backtrack 5 ISO file directly into the backtrack directory in the Katana drive. This includes the "hidden" .disk directory. (See http://www.dkszone.net/open-extract-iso-image-7zip about extracting ISOs using 7zip)
In Linux: You can also use 7zip OR you can run the following shell script. Create a file on your system called install.sh and copy the following content into it.
Running the script: # ./install.sh /path/to/katana /path/to/distro.iso
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Installer for Backtrack 5
#
# Author: JP Dunning (.ronin)
#
# Usage
# ./install.sh /path/to/katana distro.iso
#
# $1 = Katana mount path
# $2 = ISO path/and/filename
#
if [[ $UID -ne 0 ]]; then
echo " "
echo "ERROR: $0 must be run as root."
echo " "
exit 1
fi
if [[ -z $1 || -z $2 ]]; then
echo " "
echo "Usage:"
echo " ./install.sh /path/to/disk distro.iso"
echo " "
exit 1
fi
DISTRO=backtrack
SCRIPT_PATH=$(pwd)
echo "Installing $DISTRO ..."
cd $SCRIPT_PATH
mount -o loop $2 $SCRIPT_PATH/$DISTRO
# Copy over files
echo "Copying files (this may take some time) ..."
mkdir $1/$DISTRO
cp -f -v -r $SCRIPT_PATH/$DISTRO/* $1/$DISTRO
cp -f -v -r $SCRIPT_PATH/$DISTRO/.disk $1/$DISTRO
# Unmount image
echo "Cleaning up ..."
umount $SCRIPT_PATH/$DISTRO
rm -r $SCRIPT_PATH/$DISTRO
echo
echo "... $DISTRO installed."
You should now be able to boot into Backtrack 5 from the Katana boot menu. Have fun!