How to Dual Boot Backtrack and Windows

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* Create an empty partition beforehand in Windows ... For Vista, the partition can be made by going into "Computer Management" (in XP also, but not as good as Vista) ... REMEMBER, do not be formatted first partition!

* The partition is made it is for the swap partition, and partition to root ...

* After the completion, restart the computer and boot from the CD backtrack (in this case BT2) ...



* Entrance to the user logged in (root) and password (Toor) ... Then type the command "startx" without the quotes ...

* Run after entry into the system console, then type "qtparted" ... After that, the format is the partition that had been already made for the Linux root ... REMEMBER, the file system is "ext3" and label "/"... Once done, commit ...

* Exit from qtparted, then typing "umount-a" ... After that, typing "mkfs.ext3 / dev/sda7" (Incidentally, my root partition, I taro in the drive to 7) ... This depends on the use of hard disk partitions and sharing sequence ... If IDE, will be written "hda", if SATA, will be written "sda" ... letter a here indicates that the first hard drive ... (If there are 3 SATA hard drive, meaning his name sda, sdb, and sdc) ...

* Then, continue with the type fdisk / dev/sda6 ... (Incidentally, too, my swap partition is on first hard disk drive to 6) ... After this, type n (to create a new partition), type 1, then 1, then enter the amount for the swap (in this case, I enter a 2GB, so I value the input is "+2048 M ")... After that, type t, then 1 to view a list of code .... Because of the swap partition, then, input the number 82 ... When finished, type w (to ensure changes made) ...

* After that, go to the console, and typing "cd / tmp", then "mkdir bt2", then "mount / dev/sda7 bt2" ... Then exit ...

* Continue to go to "system" and select the Backtrack Installer ...
Empty Boxes source .. The contents of the 2nd box (install backtrack to) with "/ tmp/bt2 / ... Then Write MBR to: / dev / sda

* When you finish filling, then click install ampe finished ...^^

* Ok ... stelah finished, please "Log Out", "End Current Session", and "Reboot"

* After the restart, it would boot windows directly slaughtered the backtrack this ama ... nah, just follow what he wrote there ... then, go back into the system with a step to enter the root (user name) and Toor (for password) ...

* After masuh, directly into the console and type "liloconfig" ... Then, going out LILO (Linux Loader) ... Select Expert and then enter ...

* Click the begin and content according to existing information ... klo me, I type in / dev / sda then ok and select the appropriate resolution .... After that, select the MBR (Use the Master Boot Record (Possibly unsafe ))... So, ok ... typing / dev / sda ... So ok ... Then, enter boot-time ... Set wrote 30 seconds ...

* Then, select the Linux (Add a Linux partition to the LILO Config) ... press enter and clear the first part ... input the words boot here ... (Do not use SPACE ... Examples of BackTrack) ...

* Continue to choose Windows (add a Windows blah blah blah) ... In the first box, type temnpat boot (with asterisks) -> in this case, I was at / dev/sda1 Then, input the words to boot into Windows ... For example FrontTrack ... REMEMBER, do not use SPACE ...

* When you're done, check the settings of lilo (there is a problem or not) by typing the command "lilo-v" in the console ...

* To fix (If there is one), type "nano / etc / lilo.conf"

* Type reboot to make sure that it is running or not ...^^

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