Backtrack 5 R3 - Released

[Mr-Protocol]

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backtrack/backtrack-5-r3-released/

[barry99705]

I've got them all uploading from my torrent server, but it doesn't look like too many people are grabbing them.

[WatskeBart]

I've got them all uploading from my torrent server, but it doesn't look like too many people are grabbing them.

Noticed that as well and most peers are from the USA and not to many EU countries, is the internet becoming slow :P

[digip]

Someone had found the direct ISO link on the mirrors and shared it, and people were downloading direct copies instead of torrents for a while. I know Mati wasn't happy about that since someone forgot to block the mirrored servers before release to only allow torrents the first day, since they get hammered with bandwidth and pretty much DoS the site when everyone runs to download directly. The Torrents should be going over fine though,as they usually have seed servers setup ahead of time for this too. Not sure on the BT5R3 side though. In the past that was always the setup and plans, but because of the ISO download leak I think people are raiding their mirrors directly.

[hexophrenic]

Torrents worked better than I did yesterday. Got them downloaded in no time, but did not have time to play with them yet. Any issues anyone seen so far with the VM image?

[H4x0r18]

Downloading Backtrack 5 R3 Gnome 32 bit for VMware right now. The torrent download is pretty slow for me right now..so it will be about 2 hours.

[barry99705]

KDE64 bit seems to be the most popular.

[oxley]

It's a bit bigger than the previous releases.

the Gnome 64bit torrent was lighting fast, the 32bit still goging.

[Life like Opossum]

I will torrent all of them to help out! My pc runs 24/7 and offers up torrents, ventrilo and minecraft! Once I'm done school I'm thinking about starting up a little minecraft SMP with a bunch of people for fun. But for now, I'll stick to torrents. Torrents are running 24/7. I have to use my unlimited data and 5mbps upload somehow.

[Life like Opossum]

I would also like to ask everyone what your favorite Backtrack interface is. Do you prefer KDE or Gnome? Which one is better and why, I'd love to know what everyone thinks :)

[SoulSaber1]

I prefer GNOME64. Speaking of interfaces, I downloaded mine, and the GUI doesn't work. Anyone else have this problem?

[power]

Anyone excited about any big new features? I am about to grab it myself.

[TheLaughingMan]

I prefer GNOME64. Speaking of interfaces, I downloaded mine, and the GUI doesn't work. Anyone else have this problem?

try the 32 version

[potato]

Time to Upgrade, Im on R2 gnome 64 right now so probably going to upgrade to R3 gnome 64. How much moar space dose the new release need?? I'm installing on an SSD

Edited August 17, 2012 by cscash241

[digip]

Guys, if you already have it installed, just UPGRADE your current installation. If that foobars, then download and reinstall, but why lose all your settings, files, etc that you've added just to install a new ISO?

See here:

http://www.backtrack...backtrack-5-r3/

Edited August 17, 2012 by digip

[vertroa]

Gnome 64 works fine for me. I wonder what direction they will go with backtrack 6 considering gnome is basically dead.

[Life like Opossum]

Time to Upgrade, Im on R2 gnome 64 right now so probably going to upgrade to R3 gnome 64. How much moar space dose the new release need?? I'm installing on an SSD

The BT5R3-GNOME-64 ISO is: 3.07 GB (3,306,489,856 bytes)

[Mohammed JH]

Same thing happened with me, I downloaded Gnome 32 bit iSO and the GUI is not working for some reason. I can't pass the root@ab. as when I type root or toor I get "495.634598] SQUASHFS error : zlib_inflate error, data probably corrupt" and another bunch of similar err messages.

anyone has a clue?

[Mr-Protocol]

I installed the GNOME 64 bit in VirtualBox and it worked just fine.

[m1santhrope]

Gnome is fine, it's working well on my alienware m14x. Upgrading from BT5r2 broke everything, so it was easier to reinstall.

[Malachai]

Downloading Backtrack 5 R3 Gnome 32 bit for VMware right now. The torrent download is pretty slow for me right now..so it will be about 2 hours.

Question for you what is the difference between the vmware one and the regular iso? I have always downloaded the iso rather then the vmware image. Just wondering what the difference is.

[Mr-Protocol]

Question for you what is the difference between the vmware one and the regular iso? I have always downloaded the iso rather then the vmware image. Just wondering what the difference is.

VMware image is boot and go, the VM is already built and installed. ( I would imagine, I don't use VMWare nor do I like to DL pre-made VMs).

With the ISO you need to run the install process.

[Malachai]

See thats how learned to install iso. I have always downloaed the iso and installed it on a vmware system. Then after that I custom my setup once I installed it.

[Mr-Protocol]

See thats how learned to install iso. I have always downloaed the iso and installed it on a vmware system. Then after that I custom my setup once I installed it.

The real fun was installing Backtrack 3 to a VM/Computer.

There was no Installer file lol.

Manually create partitions, copy files, fun stuff...

[m1santhrope]

VMware image is boot and go, the VM is already built and installed. ( I would imagine, I don't use VMWare nor do I like to DL pre-made VMs).

With the ISO you need to run the install process.

The VMware image comes preinstalled with vmware tools. Thats.... pretty much it