Install BT3 with Compiz and Conky to Hard Drive

Ok...yes...there are a lot of guides out there for this...but this is what worked for me.

This guide assumes your HDD is clean (no partitions) and is /dev/hda...use fdisk -l if you're not sure.

Partition your hard drive with the following format:
hda1=/boot (ext2)
hda2=swap
hda3=/ (ext2)

I used one of the partitioners found on Hirens BootCD to partition my drives...but you can use whatever you want just as long as it's in that format.

Next make a USB BT3 drive and boot from it selecting BT3 with compiz.

Now follow these steps:

mkdir /mnt/backtrack
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/backtrack/
mkdir /mnt/backtrack/boot/
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/backtrack/boot/
cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/backtrack/
mkdir /mnt/backtrack/{mnt,proc,sys,tmp}
mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/backtrack/dev/
mount -t proc proc /mnt/backtrack/proc/
cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/backtrack/boot/
chroot /mnt/backtrack /bin/bash
nano /etc/lilo.conf (make changes to the boot section to /dev/hda root section to point to /dev/hda3)
lilo
exit
reboot

Now remove your USB drive and hope you boot.
If successful, you should boot and compiz should be working...
Now for conky...
Download the latest release from the website then:

tar xzf conky*
cd conky*
./configure --with-rss
make
make install

I'm using a configuration found here.
Download it and extract it. I took the weather section out of mine and added an rss feed...to do that just:

nano conkyrc

Then delete the weather section at the bottom and add:

${color white}RSS ${hr 1}${color}
${rss http://www.feedurl.com/feed.xml 0 item_titles 10}

Save as whatever you want...I saved mine as conky.conf
Now to get conky to have a transparent background and still have compiz running...you need to follow these steps:
Download giblib and feh.

tar xzf giblib*
cd giblib*
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
tar xzf feh*
cd feh*
./configure
make
make install
/sbin/ldconfig -v | greb gib
feh --bg-scale 'dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1'

Now run conky with your conf location with

conky -c /root/conky.conf

Now conky's looking good with compiz. Let me know if this doesn't work for you or theres an easier way to do things...

References:
Based the BT3 install on one found on Remote-Exploit Forums (http://forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=14751)
Conky Transparency (http://briancarper.net/blog/transparent-conky-in-kde-part-2)
ldconfig Fix (http://www.netadmintools.com/art410.html)