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How to retain changes in Backtrack 4 (security distro) installed on USB

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 20, 2009

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“In this scenario we will use 2 USB Drives. One USB
drive of 1GB and the 2GB USB drive which will hold our changes.

“Firstly we need to create a bootable USB Drive on the 1GB USB
Drive and boot our machine (A DVD Drive can be used also)

“Instructions on how to do this can be found on the following
link:
http://www.itsolutionskb.com/2009/04/how-to-make-backtrack-4-boot-from-usb/

“Secondly we will need to to prepare our 2GB USB Drive with 2
partitions, one for the USB Boot with (bt4 and boot folder) FAT32
and the other one EXT2 to keep our changes.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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