ParMan

i had to download the bt4 r2 and do a complete install of it the dis-upgrade didnt work for me.

I run microsoft MSE. and when i download things i run them in a sandbox to test them out. other then that i dont go to sites that would give me viruses. (but i also dont just search the web all day.)

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i need to convert Metasploitable for Virtualbox and i found this great tutorial. took maybe 20 minutes and worked great. Source is at the bottom of the page enjoy. Converting Metasploitable for Virtualbox So this is not a typical Back Track post, but one on converting the Metasploitable VMware image to one that will work with Virtualbox. There are other ways of converting .vmdk files to .vdi ones but none of them seemed to work for me. This was all done on an Ubuntu machine. You could do the same on others though. If you don't have or know about metasploitable check the above link. So grab a copy here and then extract the zip archive. Go to a shell and then grab qemu, this is another virtualization product but we don't care about it, once we are done you can remove it. amael@ubuntudork:~$ sudo aptitude install qemu Once this is done run the following commands. NOTE: This may take some time to complete. amael@ubuntudork:/tmp/Metasploitable$ qemu-img convert /tmp/Metasploitable/metasploitable.vmdk metasploitable.bin This will convert the .vmdk to a binary then we will convert the .bin to a Virtualbox .vdi file. amael@ubuntudork:/tmp/Metasploitable$ VBoxManage convertdd metasploitable.bin metasploitable.vdi Sun VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.14 (C) 2005-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Converting from raw image file="Metasploitable.bin" to file="Metasploitable.vdi"... Creating dynamic image with size 8589934592 bytes (8192MB)... Once this is finished you are now ready to use Metasploitable in Virtualbox. So go ahead and set up a new machine. You can find many guides on doing this on the net. But basically you just need to point Virtualbox to the newly created Metasploitable.vdi file. Source: http://archangelamael.blogspot.com/2010/07/converting-metasploitable-for.html

i really didn't want a notebook. i wanted a netbook. small easy to carry around. i have desktop i do most of my stuff. but if an ssd card would increase the boot time i might consider it.

trust me if i had the extra 200 dollars then i would have i got the netbook about a year ago and i really dont do anything on it other then search the web and remote desktop/ssh into my servers

i have a netbook with an 80 gb hard drive from the manufacture so I'm sure its 5400 rpm other then that i don't know. i was thinking about getting a 100gb SSD drive for the laptop, but only if it would truly increase my performance. (boot time) (program response time) the laptop doesn't have the best of specs. it has 2gb of ram and 1.6 single core processor. i dual boot Windows and Linux. it always seems like it takes about 5 minutes for a complete boot into windows. (i don't like waiting on things) i have been searching around and people have been posting there benchmarks (which always so a improvement), but i wanted to know if anyone has actually uses SSD and if there would be a noticeable improvement (worth 200 bucks) Thanks Parman

i have seen this on other forums but you cant post a topic or reply if this the same as your last post/reply. also i think you have to wait 1-5 minutes between post.

my netbook runs linux and windows xp i upgraded from 1gb ram to 2gb you dont notice much difference but you do notice a difference.

im going to vpn from my home machine into my laptop which is on my work network. thus my home machine would be on the vpn network off my laptop which is on my works network. right? and if use ipv-6 then i dont have ever worry about firewall's

so i think this would work i was thinking about it last night. lets say i have my laptop on my works network and my home pc is on my home network. im running linux with both systems backtrack on my laptop. so i ssh into my home pc from work. and then i use ipv6 (since ipv4 wouldn't work unless they forwarding the right ports but i dont know a lot about ipv6 so it might not work either its something im going to have to play with my main point right now is the concept) to connect my pc at home to a vpn server from my laptop at work. then my home pc should show up as on my works network. correct?

all of these you can download if you know where to look. if money is an issue.

you can check out vtc. they have a lot of software. http://www.vtc.com/products/Microsoft-Office-2007-Bundle.htm

i must be. anyways thanks for clearing it all up for me its working like a charm now.

so its not really a big deal that they keys dont have pass-phases.

no i didnt but i can. so i changed them and service started fine. whats up with that?

when i create the key it ask me for a passphrase.

just installed it. will test it out tonight.

-rw------ l root root 736 Jan 4 15:52 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -rw------ l root root 1743 Jan 4 15:52 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key so i dont think so. so i changed them to -rw-rw-r and i got this

i have been having this problem with backtrack ever since i installed r2 when ever i try to start ssh i get the errors. Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key i ran these commands to get the keys: ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key i am getting these errors on both my laptop running wireless (internet working fine), and a virtual machine (internet works here too). just dont know whats causing it not to work thanks for all your help.

i have an iphone and when my contract is up im switching to an android. everyone i know enjoys them. and the feature are not limited like the iphone.

I will be using linux on both ends. I actually was working on setting up nomachine's nxclient/server but i have my own issues with that (still trying to figure it out/ only thing im missing is time to be able to).

i do know that i dont just want to access my machine i want my machine on my home network to feel like its on the network my laptop is on.

just to let you know now I'm sure I'm going to butcher this question. so i have a mini laptop which you know can be slow for pentesting. i plan on building a new computer early next year and im trying to figure this out before then, but is there way to connect to the computer on my home network like via ssh and run x11 forwarding and make it so my computer at home acts like its on the network that the mini is on. i was thinking if i shh into the computer at home and then from the computer at home i could have a vpn on my laptop and connect my computer to my laptop. i pretty much would like it to feel like im holding my massive computer in my hands at all time. the only thing is i cant work it out in my head. Thanks for the help as always Casey Parman

i know my buddy has this kind of issue and all he had to do was flash his bios and windows installed like a charm.