genghis_tron Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I've decided this is the OS I want to use on a flash drive with the pineapple... also this OS has a lot of useful features I can use at work for troubleshooting. Ok, so I'm trying to get Backtrack 5 to be persistent on a 32gb flash drive. I have tried several programs like unetbootin and lili USB creator. They install backtrack just fine, but when it comes to actual persistence, that doesn't seem to happen. I've re-sized partitions once I set lili USB to have 4gb persistence (used gparted to make a new primary partition called casper-rw per this site). Casper-rw is indeed persistent at that point, but nothing on the OS is. I've also tried the guide on backtracks site, but I could not get it to boot (also dont really need full disk encryption). Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Am I over complicating things or expecting too much out of this project? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Are you trying to plug your USB into the pineapple with BT5 installed on it? If so, you cannot do that. The added USB storage would be to install the tools (not OS) you want that will not fit on the pineapple due to size limitations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genghis_tron Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 (edited) Sorry I reread my post and realized I wasn't too clear. I am not trying to use backtrack on the pineapple itself, just my laptop. I left out the fact that I can no longer do ICS on my laptop due to restrictions. So, I want to use backtrack because it has a pretty robust suite of networking tools. Edited March 25, 2012 by genghis_tron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Just install it to the usb drive like you would install to a hard drive. USB persistence with 5 is funky. Just make sure when you're doing the partitioning you tell it to install the boot loader to the usb stick, and not your computer's drive!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtPineapple Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I've had the best results with BT5 by just installing it on my HD. Everything just works :) Using BT5 via VMware is somewhat flaky and the live booting is just a pain in the a**. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zardeefonder Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I've decided this is the OS I want to use on a flash drive with the pineapple... also this OS has a lot of useful features I can use at work for troubleshooting. Ok, so I'm trying to get Backtrack 5 to be persistent on a 32gb flash drive. I have tried several programs like unetbootin and lili USB creator. They install backtrack just fine, but when it comes to actual persistence, that doesn't seem to happen. I've re-sized partitions once I set lili USB to have 4gb persistence (used gparted to make a new primary partition called casper-rw per this site). Casper-rw is indeed persistent at that point, but nothing on the OS is. I've also tried the guide on backtracks site, but I could not get it to boot (also dont really need full disk encryption). Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Am I over complicating things or expecting too much out of this project? I have had pretty good results using the guide you sited above at Infosec Ramblings. I boot the Live CD in Virtual Box and install to an SD card I use on my ASUS eee netbook. I have been using the above guide since BT4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genghis_tron Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 Retried the guide and was able to get persistence working correctly. Thanks for the posts everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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