Backtrack 4 (beta) installation guide and some useful commands to get you started

Now that the public BT4 beta has been officially released, we can start playing with it. Well, I started writing a tutorial for a harddisk install for Backtrack 4 beta since there is no GUI at this point. I'm still ironing out some specific parts for my 901 eeepc and will post them tomorrow.

But it seems that muts from remote-exploit has posted a quick install guide for BT4 already. So you can start with that install guide.

There are some things that you should know about this beta like:

• DHCP disabled by default on boot, you need to /etc/init.d/networking start
• If you do an HD install and want to restore networking (DHCP) to be enabled at boot, type "update-rc.d networking defaults".
• Getting a live USB install is nice and easy with Unetbootin
  
• Wireless networking in KDE can be started with KnetworkManager (/etc/init.d/NetworkManager)
• Various drivers can be found in /opt/drivers (various madwifi branches, video drivers for Nvidia and HP 2133's).

These are only a few of the good tips and tricks that came out of the shmoocon release. If you want to read more, visit the official backtrack blog.

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