help setup os's

wiwazevedo

wiwazevedo

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k well this is sort of how i had it before i killed it haha

40% windows
30%fc7
30%bt2

i didnt actually set it up my friend did
i have all the install cds
how do i set it up?
he said to use gparted to make the partitions
but it says that it cant start the gui or something
w/e

please help?
 
First is that Fedora Core 7 seen as the second OS? I don't recognise the other abbreviation there. If GParted saw problems loading that would simply mean a bad burn or the disk was not made bootable. You can't use rewritable media for that.

One free version of a burning software is called BurnOn that has worked great for burning the 0.3.3.0 live for cd-r version of GParted onto disk. You can download that from http://www.burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/ It works well but you still get the IE windows offer for buying the retail version. That's the one annoyance.

The one thing noted on the partitioning scheme there is a lack of a swap partition. You can see one 2gb swap shared between two different distros however making things a little easier. The percentage for each doesn't show the size of the drive reserved for this however. You'll find that you don't need any large root partition like 20-30-40-50-60-80gb in order to run even a larger one. A good 10gb covers the root well.
 
bt2 is backtrack 2
also linux
i used deep burner for making gparted
which i have used to make all kinds of other live cds
il try burning it again though
 
For iso images especially GParted I found the BurnOn program worked great for this. But that was simply a bad burn. That would seem to be the most likely reason from the description given for seeing that. I've tossed a few frisbies around as well from even finding a new container of blank disks with track data information already on them and not able to burn anything to them.

For working with both MS and Linux types of partitions as well as other OSs the best version of GParted and the latest "platform independent" release is the 0.3.3.0 version. Currently that's 12 down from the top seen at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

The earlier 0.2.5.1. and 0.2.8.1.1. versions were slow at loading up to the main gui compared to this one. To insure download of the correct one first click to open the (+) sign seen at the beginning of each version and scroll across to the right side of the screen to see what is seen in the architecture column.
 
Now that you mentioned the full name of that distro it somehow rang a bell while never actually looking that one over. I imagine that's a smaller one like Zenwalk or Puppy there.
 
I was curious about if that was something that could apply to the MS Windows environment as well as Linux or limited there to the open source OS. It looks like it could be small and effective however.
 
Well backtrack has some very powerful tools the problem is, getting hardware that fully supports things like passive sniffing and packet injection. Real hacking tools are limited to hardware driver support in Linux. Then also take into account that networking is really its own platform all together. Network devices could care less what platform your client is be it Windows, Mac, or Linux on your switches. However, networking hardware does offer security at the firmware level of the networking hardware.
 
Here it would be for stand alone not networking leaving that one out. But even a good firewall can see holes at times.
 
well a firewall is as secure as the person that implements the firewall. If you have some uneducated bozo opening up all ports on your firewall and allowing all traffic in and out, then yeah, that could cause a problem or two.
 
That's true! One thing I liked about the freeware known as Spyware Terminator was the mild form of prompting for anything new without hampering activities a typical firewall will see. It's caught a few things already when the old case was in use. But basically that does much the same with the allow or deny option seen in prompts.
 
The problem with that it is directed at Linux and networking and not intended for Windows. The information was good on it however. At some time when additional and even larger drives are added here a few distros could benefit then.
 
lol well u guys lost me
thanks for the feedback
i got it working
i didnt use the gparted cd after all
i just booted off a fc7 cd and used the partition manager that came with it
 
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