

The distribution has been heavily customized to be used in real-life penetration testing tasks.

The world's best penetration testing tools When booting the Live DVD, users will be dropped to a shell prompt, where they need to execute the startx command in order to enter the live session, which provides users with a traditional desktop environment (KDE or GNOME). The Live DVDs feature a custom boot menu that allows users to start the live environment in stealth mode (without network connection), forensics mode (without drive or swap mount), text mode, safe mode, as well as to boot the existing OS or test the RAM for errrors. It is distributed as four Live DVD ISO images, supporting the GNOME and KDE desktop environments, as well as both 64-bit and 32-bit architectures. Thanks to Softpedia, users can still download BackTrack Linux and install it on their personal computers or laptops. Distributed as 32-bit/64-bit Live DVDs with GNOME and KDE It has been officially discontinued in February 2014.

And remember to create only ext4 as BackTrack needs that format. Open the tool and make an ext4 formatted partition for BackTrack installation (Minimum 30GB).Click create and after a few minutes you would have successfully created a BackTrack 5 R3 bootable USB.Ĭreating the partition for you BackTrack 5 R3.

Choose Linux Distribution = BackTrack 5 R3.After you have successfully downloaded and installed the Universal USB Installer tool, fill it with the following information.
