Grayson5 Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 Hi, I am an experienced PC user and run BackTrack 4 as a USB Persistent device on my laptop. However, I am considering getting a new laptop and was looking at Mac Pro's. I know I can run windows on those, but since I don't know that much about Mac's I was wondering if they will dual-boot (or run off a USB) BackTrack 4 and other versions of Linux such as Ubuntu? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiwan Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 An Intel Mac will happily boot any bootable media and will be displayed on the Boot options screen (Hold Option while booting). To Dual Boot anything other than Windows you will need something like rEFIt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eovnu87435ds Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Backtrack 4 can be configured in dual-boot on a mac, but you cannot put a mac's wifi card in monitor mode. You wil need a usb card in order to do pqcket injection. I currently have os x, win7 ultimate and ubuntu 10.04 LTS all on my macbook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiwan Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 you can put it in monitor mode but it will not do packet injection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eovnu87435ds Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Also, for usb booting you need to format your flashdrive with apple partition map instead of master boot record. Then it will be bootable from a mac, but not a pc @okiwan: nice save dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eovnu87435ds Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 (edited) Oops double post Edited September 6, 2010 by eovnu87435ds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chikpee Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 (edited) Like they said above, you should be able to plugin a different USB dongle wireless adapter and use that for monitor mode/packet injection. Just make sure you find one with the right chipset that has drivers written for it. I don't have a Mac, but my HP laptop's builtin wireless card doesn't have a monitor mode/packet injection driver, so I use a USB-plugin D-Link Wireless G WUA-1340 for that. Kismet, aircrack-ng, and all the rest work just fine with it. Here's a (slightly dated but) good list of cards and whether BT has drivers available for them or not and should help you in shopping for one: http://backtrack.offensive-security.com/in...hp/HCL:Wireless Edited September 6, 2010 by chikpee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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