Installing BT3 in VMware *UPDATED*

There are a couple of ways to run BT3 in VMware, but when it comes to down to speed and function ability, you should really just install it. *NOTE: Now you can just download a preconfigured VM with an early version of VMWare tools installed. Just download it and when first booting up the VM, select the option "I copied it". Here is a link for the download. The installation process is rather easy. Just make a new virtual machine, select all your settings, and then just format your virtual HDD to ext2 and install.

Here are the steps:

• Create a new virtual machine.
• File > New > Virtual Machine
• Click Next > Typical > Linux (select "Other Linux 2.6 x kernel")
• Name it what you want and select the storage location of the VM
• Choose "Use bridged networking" if you want the VM to look like an actual device on your LAN
• Then select the size of your virtual HDD, and uncheck "allocate disk space now"
• Click finish
• Add a USB device to your VM
• This is real simple to do, and very useful to have done. Select your VM and select "Edit this virtual machine".
• Under the Hardware tab select "Add".
• Then select USB controller.
• Boot into the VM with the BT3 CD in the cd drive.
• Select Boot into KDE (default selection)
• Then once BT has booted, open Konsole
• Prepare the disk for formatting
  
• Type fdisk -l
• See your HD, it should be /dev/sda
• Assuming it is /dev/sda, enter fdisk /dev/sda
• Enter n to create a new partition
• Then p to make it the primary partition
• Then 1 to assign it as the first partition
• Then press enter to accept the default first cylinder
• Then enter again to accept the default last cylinder
• Finally enter w to write the changes
• Now format the disk in ext2 format
• mke2fs /dev/sda1
• Once the disk is properly formatted, make a mount directory for the hard drive.
• mkdir /mnt/sda1
• mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
• mount
• Now you should see that device sda1 is mounted at /mnt/sda1 and is formatted in ext2
• Install Backtrack
• K > Backtrack > Backtrack Installer
• Keep all defaults except change "Installation method" to "Real" and uncheck "Restore Original MBR After LILO".
• Click install
• After the installation is finished, reboot the VM without the CD inserted.

After the installation of Backtrack, it might be a good idea to install VMware tools. I am currently writing and figuring out the steps to do so. It will hopefully be up in a few days.