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Author:  arXcorp [ Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:53 pm ]
Post subject:  BackTrack 5 installed and running

Using a similar method outlined in http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/vi ... php?t=2176 we were able to get BackTrack 5 for arm running on the Efika MX Smarttop units.

BackTrack is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux based distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.

You can get the arm version of BackTrack 5 here

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/

Make sure you select Backtrack 5


loonix
arX corp.

Author:  czp [ Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:34 am ]
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It sounds like a very interesting project, but I always get The connection has timed out message when I try to reach the webserver :-(

Author:  arXcorp [ Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:29 am ]
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Quote:
It sounds like a very interesting project, but I always get The connection has timed out message when I try to reach the webserver :-(
Which link are you trying that is timing out?

loonix
arX corp.

Author:  czp [ Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:53 am ]
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It was http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ and it's OK now, but was unavailable until now today...

Author:  remy.je [ Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:55 pm ]
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I'm attempting to install on SD Media using a Linux OS. Any hints or instructions for the Smartbook? Will the image only function in a chroot?

Author:  arXcorp [ Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:02 pm ]
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You actually won't even have to go the chroot way.

1. On the SD card create a boot partition and a filesystem partition
2. extract the backtrack image onto the filesystem partition
3. copy the kernel modules in the right place
4. With SD card in smartbook reboot from SD

you will booted into the Backtrack environment - no chroot env ;-)

loonix
arX corp.

Author:  czp [ Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:26 am ]
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I'll stick to chroot on the smartbook for now (no more free SD cards at home...) Once my smartbook is free, it's the best tool ever to generate large amount of logs for my syslog-ng experiments :-)
--
Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/

Author:  remy.je [ Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:17 pm ]
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I created two partitions on SD media:
128 MiB [sdboot]
~15 GiB [sdroot]

Mounted the bt5.img with the loopback option.

rsync -av /mnt/bt5-loop/boot/ /mnt/sdboot/
rsync -av /mnt/bt5-loop/ /mnt/sdroot/

No joy.

What am I missing? May I please ask for more details?

Thanks!

Author:  DrEagle [ Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:36 am ]
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I have started a howto for BT5 on Efika :
https://doukki.net/doku.php?id=wiki:notes:efika-bt5

What is missing from this howto (for now) is the FIXME part :
I have to prepare the uInitrd and uImage from the efika itself (in chroot).

A ready to use image can then be generate, after some cleannings, for a 4Go SD card...

Stay tuned

Author:  steev [ Sun Mar 11, 2012 3:12 am ]
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Definitely awesome! I actually had this back when it was released, but unfortunately, a recent apt-get update completely blew everything up that I had, so I gave up on it. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this!

Author:  remy.je [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:16 am ]
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Quote:
I have started a howto for BT5 on Efika :
https://doukki.net/doku.php?id=wiki:notes:efika-bt5

What is missing from this howto (for now) is the FIXME part :
I have to prepare the uInitrd and uImage from the efika itself (in chroot).

A ready to use image can then be generate, after some cleannings, for a 4Go SD card...

Stay tuned
The wiki looks great! I'm having difficulty locating the kernel mentioned: linux-image-2.6.31.14.27dreagle-efikamx_2012.03_armel.deb

Where do we find it?

Thanks!

Author:  PurpleAlien [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:43 am ]
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Hi.

'linux-image-2.6.31.14.27dreagle-efikamx_2012.03_armel.deb' can be obtained by compiling the kernel sources. You can find these here:

https://github.com/genesi/linux-legacy

To cross compile them, make sure you have these:
Code:
apt-get install debhelper kernel-package fakeroot binutils-multiarch
And compile with:

Code:
cp arch/arm/configs/mx51_efikamx_defconfig .config

make-kpkg --revision 2012.03 --arch armel --cross-compile arm-linux-gnueabi- --subarch efikamx --us --uc --rootcmd=fakeroot --jobs=2 --initrd binary-arch

Johan.

Author:  remy.je [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:54 am ]
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Can I do the kernel compile in the BT5 chroot?- Or from my instance of armhf?

Also, I'm getting the following when I chroot in to the BT5 root:
root@mp3:/media/rootfs/boot# chroot /media/rootfs/
bash: /dev/null: Permission denied

Do I need to mount /proc or /dev?

Thanks!

Author:  arXcorp [ Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:14 pm ]
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Quote:
I have started a howto for BT5 on Efika :
https://doukki.net/doku.php?id=wiki:notes:efika-bt5

What is missing from this howto (for now) is the FIXME part :
I have to prepare the uInitrd and uImage from the efika itself (in chroot).

A ready to use image can then be generate, after some cleannings, for a 4Go SD card...

Stay tuned
Great job - I see in your todo's you need prep-kernel

Assuming you have all the build tools installed and the debhelper tools (as mentioned in the kernel compile how to post above) you can do the following:

1.
Code:
git clone git://github.com/genesi/prep-kernel.git
2.
Code:
cd prep-kernel
3.
Code:
debuild
It will fail at the signature but it should build a prep-kernel deb package in the parent directory.

Author:  DrEagle [ Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:11 am ]
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thanks for the feedback,
If anyone is interested, I can upload the ready to use image.

Any interest/possibility in hosting it with the other available linux images ?

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