Be very sure that you first change
to the USB drive and cd into the boot directory before running the script.
The boot process in particular is quicker (and quieter) from a USB key than from a
CD. A USB key also lends itself to easier configuration changes without ruining a bunch
of CDs while perfecting your change modules.
Saving Your BackTrack Configurations
One of the most compelling features of the BackTrack LiveCD distribution is its easy
configurability. As we mentioned earlier, all changes to a running BackTrack instance are
written only to RAM and not to disk. Configuration changes come in the form of SLAX
modules. A module can represent a new file or directory structure, a modified file, a new
application created from source code, or a snapshot of the in-memory changes since the
session started. Modules are built into the LZM file format using dir2lzm or tgz2lzm.
You can also convert Debian/Ubuntu??™s DEB packages to the LZM format with deb2lzm,
or to SLAX 5 format modules with mo2lzm.
We tested BackTrack on two different Dell laptops. Both had things we wanted to customize.
For example, one of the laptops had an Intel wireless network card that was recognized
and had on-CD drivers, but didn??™t load by default.
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