Iffy Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 I want to know if I can run Backtrack 3 or 4 on my Windows machine.. I am new in backtrack and was wondering if I could run it on my windows box or do i need to configure my Liunux machine for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiyed14 Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Backtrack 3 and 4 are operating systems, specifically, a Linux distro will pre-build and configured pen testing tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 You can run a live CD on your Windows PC. Boot from the CD and the OS runs entirely in RAM. It doesn't install on your hard drive, nor does it write/read data to/from it ... unless you specifically perform a write/read operation. This is the way that I first started to play around with it and I'm planning to install it into VMWare shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litefire Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 You can run a live CD on your Windows PC. Boot from the CD and the OS runs entirely in RAM. It doesn't install on your hard drive, nor does it write/read data to/from it ... unless you specifically perform a write/read operation. This is the way that I first started to play around with it and I'm planning to install it into VMWare shortly. i don't recommend this, because VMWare doesn't see my wireless adapter, so you can't do anything wirelessly such as aircrack or anything of the like. I'm not sure if it's just me, but how hard is it to restart your computer and boot from cd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 i don't recommend this, because VMWare doesn't see my wireless adapter, so you can't do anything wirelessly such as aircrack or anything of the like. I'm not sure if it's just me, but how hard is it to restart your computer and boot from cd? Interesting - I didn't know that. In the last episode, Darren was playing around with BT and wireless capture. IIRC, he used his "real" eeePC rather than his VMWare on the AAO. He didn't explain why but it might relate to the situation that you've mentioned. Has anyone else had problems using wireless with VMWare? It's not something that I had planned to do (not initially, anyway). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 BT will happily use a wifi adapter as long as it's USB and you tell VMWare to use the adapter, works just like native if you have it set up correctly. It won't work if you have a card style adapter (PCI/PCIe, and their mobile variants) with VMWare. That said, PCI cards may work in KVM/xen because they support PCI passthrough, YMMV and it's probably more work than it's worth considering you can just natively boot a CD without modifying your current OS, but it might be fun to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I use VMware and a usb Wifi adapter all the time, but no, vmware will not work with internal wireless devices, only standard internal ethernet ports. Why, I have no idea, but that is vmware. I like it better to use the USB ones this way so you can work in windows and vmware while from both your wired home connection and capturing packets from the wireless card in vmware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobLoos Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I use VMware and a usb Wifi adapter all the time same here and it works fine with the ALFA usb, sometimes i just can't be bothered shutting down my windows box, restarting in linux,.... make sure to set the vmware NIC in bridged mode so it gets an IP of your DHCP (router) if you want to test your internal network if you are gonna do any wireless fun.. you'll need a decent card anyway, most internal cards don't cut it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.