If you want
to experience and experiment with backtrack 5 hacking tools such as kismet,
metasploit etc. Then today i am going to show you how you can install and run Backtrack 5 Operating System inside
a virtual machine(VirtualBox).
It works on all computers running any operating system such as Windows Xp, Windows 7, Or Mac Os X.
So lets get stared installing backtrack 5 on your operating system.
Downloading Softwares to install Backtrack on
Virtual Box
1. First you will need Virtual
Machine to run Backtrack 5 which you can
Download
From VirtualBox
Website. After
downloading VirtualBox Install
the program. Installing VirtualBox is really simple like any other program you
install on your computer.
2. Then you will need Backtrack 5
.iso file which you can
download from
Here
with below configuration. You can download it directly or via torrent thats
your choice.
Getting started installing Backtrack 5 on
Virtual Box
1. Open VirtualBox and Click on
New. Then a popup box will appear in that write Name as backtrack, Type as Linux
and Version as Ubuntu as
shown in below picture and click on Next.
2. Next allocate memory to your virtual machine. I
usually allocate half the ram i have which is 2GB of 4GB as shown below and
click Next.
3. Then choose second option Create
Virtual Hard Drive Now from three options and then click on Next.
4. Then Choose VDI(Virtual
Disk Image) From all the options and click Next.
5. Now to options will come to allocate size on Hard Drive
from that choose Dynamically Allocated and
click Next
6. Then leave name as it is and allocate the size to arround 15-20GB and click Create.
7. Now you will have your virtual machine on left. To start it double click the virtual
machine. As you running it for the first time you need to configure it.
8. Navigate to the Backtrack 5 .iso file we downloaded by
clicking on button i
highlighted in red in below image and select it and click on start.
9. After clicking on start click Enter and leave the setting
as it is and press Enter again.
10. Now it will ask for command so type startx and press Enter and it will load user
interface of backtrack.
11. Click on Install Backtrack
icon from desktop and it will open installation window. Now leave language to
English and click on Forward. It will now ask for location, Enter your location
and press Forward.
12. On Step 3,4,5,6 you don't need to do anything just click
on Forward and on step 7 Click on Install. It will take couple of minutes and you will have backtrack
5 install on your computer.
13. Now will need to enter username and password to enter
backtrack, the default username for backtrack is
root and password is toor. You
can use passswd command to change
your password.
14. Done you now have Backtrack 5 running on your virtual
machine.
