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Figure 5-3 BackTrack menu
They even included both the ISSAF and OSSTMM testing and assessment methodologies
documents on the CD. If you find anything missing, the next several sections will show you
how you can add your own customizations into the distribution yourself.
Writing BackTrack to Your USB Memory Stick
If you plan to use BackTrack regularly or want to customize it, you??™ll probably want to
speed it up by either creating a BackTrack bootable USB memory stick, or even writing
out a full, uncompressed version of BackTrack on your hard drive. The full install will
require about 2,700 MB.
If you have a spare 1GB USB memory stick, you can increase your BackTrack performance
by turning it into a BackTrack Live-USB key. You just need to copy the BT and boot
directories from the CD (or from the ISO) to the root of the USB key and then make it
bootable. BackTrack includes a bootinst.bat script in the boot directory to make the USB
key bootable. Be sure to run this script from the USB key, not from your hard drive.
NOTE If you accidentally run the bootinst.bat script while in a directory that lives
on the drive of a current,working OS installation, you will render the OS install
useless by overwriting its master boot record.
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