Howto:VMware Server

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Launch VMWare Fusion and select a new installation. I chose Linux, and a linux 2.6 kernel and then labeled it BackTrack2-Final. I did this intentionally as there is a new release of BT coming out that I also intend on installing ;)

For the sake of speed, I launched BT from the downloaded ISO rather than cd, but either should work fine. I went with the default 8G option but opted to have the files split into 2G each.

Log in using root/toor, then startx

Open a terminal and do the following:

fdisk /dev/sda

We're going to create 3 partitions at this point. The first partition is overly generous at 100M, but I'm funny like that. The second is our swap partition which I generally make 1024M/1G. We assign the remainder of the disk to eventually be used as /

Within fdisk, issue the following commands to do this.

n p 1 enter +100M a 1 n p 2 enter +1024M t 2 82 n p 3 enter enter w

The w command within fdisk will write your changes to disk.

I'm a fan of ext3, so I then did the following:

mke2fs -j /dev/sda1
mke2fs -j /dev/sda3
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2

This will make sda1 and sda3 ext3 filesystems and enable swap on sda2.

Now cd to /tmp and do the following.

mkdir boot
mkdir bt2
mount /dev/sda1 boot
mount /dev/sda3 bt2

Ok, now launch the BT Installer from the KDE start menu, located under System as BackTrack Installer. The place you are installing to is /tmp/bt2 and I chose a full install since I have the space for it.

There may be a significant pause at 80%. Don't Panic. This is normal, just wait it out. You are free to panic if it's still there 30 minutes later, but it shouldn't take that long at all.

Viola. You have a BackTrack2 install in VMWare to use and abuse to your hearts content on your macbook :)

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