Setting up BackTrack (BT)

1. Install the BT using the mounted .iso or bootable disk
2. The BT4 doesn’t ask you for username/passwd during the install, rather by default creates root user with password toor.
3. Once BT is installed, login as  root user and reset password ‘sudo passwd root’
4. use startx toget into the Xterminal session.

For detailed steps along with screenshots refer to backtrack-hard-drive-install and for a recorded video demonstration refer to install-backtrack-hard-disk

1. Once you have BT up and running, you can enable the network connectivity by running /etc/init.d/networking start command.  For more details refer to http://www.backtrack-linux.org/faq/
2. If you need to copy any data to external USB drives, connect the drive and go to ‘system menu’ -> ‘Storage media’