fullyloaded Posted July 18, 2011 Posted July 18, 2011 hi i was wondering if there is anyway to get backtrack 5 to run on a 8 gb usb and have it save it settings? thanks... Quote
Mr-Protocol Posted July 18, 2011 Posted July 18, 2011 It will barely fit on an 8GB USB, there will be no room for anything really and it will popup warnings about low disk space. BTW, google will help you find that answer also a walk through guide. Or backtrack-linux.org in the "HowTo" section on the site... Quote
Culaterout Posted February 28, 2012 Posted February 28, 2012 What? Backtrack 5 is only 1.9 gb iso! Were did u get this idea from? If your talking about adding it to Katana or hirens cd list then maybe its to large! I'm using Unetbootin and putting multiple .iso's to drive and all the tools for editing windows of course I will have to install the windows .exe this way ,but admin wants it to be clairvoyant. So he can see edited files and tools used. We always suspect any Tool Downloaded from internet to have a possible virus or trojen horse. So Admin leaves tools on His computer. Quote
Mr-Protocol Posted February 28, 2012 Posted February 28, 2012 Yes, that is an ISO with no updates and no persistent settings and compressed. If you want to do an install to a USB drive to have persistent settings and updates. You need a USB stick larger than 8 GB to do it. Quote
pyro2927 Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 Yes, that is an ISO with no updates and no persistent settings and compressed. If you want to do an install to a USB drive to have persistent settings and updates. You need a USB stick larger than 8 GB to do it. No, you don't. An 8 gig stick will work just fine: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Persistent_USB Quote
Mr-Protocol Posted March 8, 2012 Posted March 8, 2012 No, you don't. An 8 gig stick will work just fine: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wiki/index.php/Persistent_USB Read my post again. It will install on an 8GB (with persistence) but you will not have the storage for updates. Also I am not sure of the differences between BT5 initial release and BT5R2 in regards to footprint. I would assume the BT5R2 has a bigger footprint due to updates and more tools vs the BT5 "vanilla" which that was originally based off of. From my BT5R2 VM root@bt:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 15G 13G 1.1G 93% / none 480M 220K 480M 1% /dev none 498M 8.0K 498M 1% /dev/shm none 498M 52K 498M 1% /var/run none 498M 0 498M 0% /var/lock none 498M 0 498M 0% /lib/init/rw Shared 465G 92G 373G 20% /media/sf_Shared root@bt:~# I didn't even update it today yet to keep it current. :P Quote
pyro2927 Posted March 9, 2012 Posted March 9, 2012 Read my post again. It will install on an 8GB (with persistence) but you will not have the storage for updates. I was always under the impression you can install updates with persistence enabled. I am about to try anyways, I'll report back. Quote
Mr-Protocol Posted March 9, 2012 Posted March 9, 2012 I was always under the impression you can install updates with persistence enabled. I am about to try anyways, I'll report back. Yes, persistence gives the ability for updates, but there is literally no space on the drive to fit them. I installed BT5 "vanilla" on an 8GB USB and it fit with persistence, but attempting updates would fail and performance was terrible due to the full drive. BT5R1 and R2 are bigger and most likely will not fit with just the base install. As you can see from my above post, it is using 13GB on my VM with BT5R2 updated from R1. Quote
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