Bloomz Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 Taken from http://forum.hackfromacave.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=185 Update to Backtrack 5 Postby .ronin » 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: Code: Select all 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 Code: Select all #!/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! 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ihack2learn Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 I can confirm these instructions work on Gnome 32 bit in windows. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lulz Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Cool I just downloaded katana. I was wondering myself how to update it. Thanks Bloomz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technoprenerd Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 (edited) I confirm this works with BackTrack 5 R1. (Thanks for that!!) However, I just did this with BT5 R2 and it doesn't work properly. (the boot screen comes up, and after that it tells it can't find .....) Any suggestions? EDIT: To be precise, I am getting an: ----- BusyBux v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.1-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs) Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/backtrack/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs ----- Btw, did this inside Vbox with plopboot and without vbox on my machine, same error. Any help? Edited March 9, 2012 by vlek007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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