Backtrack

[Maccy1988]

Hey Folks,

Installed BackedtrackR4 today on my Sony Vaio VPC laptop, all running well apart from the touchpad. I had a hunt around the forums for a fix but havnt had any luck so far. I'm studying a degree in Cyber Sec and Ethical hacking with CCNP level networking. So I really need BT running with out the limitations of a virtual environment....... More Power !!!!!

I looked at BT5 sometime ago but thought it a bit clunky compared to 4R2.

Anyone that can give me some pointers would be much appreciated. Not really wanting to have to carry a USB mouse around.

Many thanks again.

Maccy

[farmeunit]

Not the answer you are looking for, but what are the limitations of running in a VM? You actually have more flexibility as you have your own machine or another VM to run tests on.

[Maccy1988]

Win7 uses 2gig to run the os, for quick pen testing/cracking you want to dedicate the machines entire resources to the OS. Running in virtuals also brings with it a number of restrictions/problems as your restricted by the Virtual environment. Used VMware ect with BT and running from your drive be it via duel boot has many advantages. Never run into basic networking issues and think well really that shouldn't be the case??? The difference from running from HD is the way to go. Also I have a summer job with a pen testing consultant and how he wants us to work together means using the duel boot option. IMO though it depends what your purposes are.

For some a virtual will be ample, but if your running 7/8 terminal processes then obviously your going to notice the difference. My laptop has 8gig and an I5 so cracks processes quick enough.

Just be nice to have synaptics !!

[farmeunit]

I totally agree on wanting things to work as they should, lol. Was just curious. I've been wanting to learn more from the security side of things, but just haven't had the time.

[Maccy1988]

Well as its my chosen career path I need to start as I mean to continue, the guy I'm going to work with before starting back uni uses a 3 grand MacBook pro, flattened with only BT4R2 on it..... Wow something else.

Good place to start is a set of books based on the Sec+ syllabus published by GTS Learning. Excellent along with professor Messer Sec+ videos. Give yourself an excellent grounding in Security. I'm doing my CCNA Sec exam in 3 weeks :-/

Get into it, if you enjoy it go for it.