Netbook install issue

AHarvey

AHarvey

AHarvey

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Hi all,

The tech from London wants to have a little competition to see who can get into a PC in the office, its kind of a learning exercise for the new techies and he's opened to our office too.

Been doing some googling and wanted to start with Linux so was looking at installing backtrack Linux either on a hdd partition or on a USB drive/stick.

Well, I can't get it to work!

Downloaded the BackTrack 4 R2 Release ISO from the website, I've loaded the ISO with deamon tools as the netbook doesn't have a cd drive.

I've followed instructions on using Unetbootin and using the ISO to put it on an 8gb USB drive, a FAT32 20gb partition on a USB harddrive and to a 20gb FAT32 partition on the main harddrive and nothing is working.

haven't burnt it to DVD to see if it works on a normal PC yet but I've tried Pentoo as well with same failures :(

Any suggestions?

netbook is a Acer Aspire D255 with Android and Win7 starter on it already.
 
managed to get backtrack 4 rt2 on to a USB drive and booting with the pendrive linux app, loaded in cmd line but managed to load gui with startx cmd.

I want to install this now to my hard drive. clicking on the install folder on the desktop, choose location and language then goes to the partition page but it isn't finding the hdd in the netbook. It will find the usb hdd when that is plugged in.
 
well after finally getting it sorted, numerous install tries, hard drive issues, partitioning problems, GRUB problems then further reinstalling I've finally got a working version of BackTrack on my netbook.

Now I just need to learn to use linux properly :D
 
AHarvey said:
well after finally getting it sorted, numerous install tries, hard drive issues, partitioning problems, GRUB problems then further reinstalling I've finally got a working version of BackTrack on my netbook.

Now I just need to learn to use linux properly :D
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For interests sake and if anyone else has the same problem in the future

How did you resolve this please? :)


EDIT

Backtrack assumes quite a high level of linux knowledge and can be a complete bugger to use
 
Yep, I've been playing around with and other than basic knowledge of Ubuntu I am starting to think this may be a bit too much for a starter so may change to Ubuntu for now, keep backtrack on usb stick for the work challenge :D

Anyway, to get this to work I downloaded the latest Backtrack ISO, formatted my 8gb usb stick and then used this app:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

this creates a bootable Live USB. changed bios to boot from USB and booted it up to cmd line and had to launch the GUI with the STARTX command. Once the GUI was up and running there was an 'install' file on the desktop that wouldn't find the hard drive in the netbook.

Loaded windows up and checked the harddrive out. It had 6 partitions. 1 windows, 1 android, 3 system partitions (install files etc) and 1 I had created for linux. I removed the linux partition and left the 20gb as empty space.

Booted the live USB up again and it would now see the harddrive but would't let me do a manual hard drive partition so I could set sizes myself, think it was a usb issue. Had to reboot to windows, and in the empty space create a 2gb partition for the linux swap file and booted up the Live USB again.

this time it allowed to me install Backtrack to the correct area :D

I won't go in to the GRUB issues I had because that was because when it loaded up I selected one of 2 windows boots, and the one I first chose was the Acer recovery program which is why I think it error 17'd on me :)

However, I think I will be really giving Linux a proper try now, change to Ubuntu, get my old P3 or P4 system attached to the TV and look at experimenting for a media server. If it works, I'll invest in some better hardware :D
 
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