KATANA

howto install the ultimate boot stick

including:

• Backtrack
• the Ultimate Boot CD
• CAINE
• Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
• Ophcrack Live
• Puppy Linux
• Trinity Rescue Kit
• Clonezilla
• Derik's Boot and Nuke
• Kon-Boot
• Katana Tool Kit:
  • Metasploit
  • Wireshark
  • NMAP
  • John the Ripper
  • Cain & Abel
  • Firefox
  • PuTTY
  • the Unstoppable Copier
  • OllyDBG
  • Cygwin
  • ClamAV
  • IECookiesView
  • MozillaCacheView
  • FreeOTFE
  • FindSSN
  • The Sleuth Kit
  • OpenOffice
  • and many more.

make sure you have a nice usb stick with at least 8GB to have phun :)

via torrent

http://www.hackfromacave.com/torrents/katana-v2.0.torrent

via http/ftp

http://sourceforge.net/projects/katana-usb/files/

at first we need to clean our usb stick.

if you don't know how to do it, you can use this howto

creating our partitions

look for your usb using

cat /proc/partitions

for partitioning the usb we will use fdisk

fdisk /dev/sdc

i am not going to explain here how to use fdisk, cause i already did it in this howto: how to use fdisk

when u are finished, it should look somehow like this:
(values can be different from the ones i used …)

• size of partition 1 should be at least 5 GB [ i used +7000M ], and this partition should be bootable [a]
• size of partition 2 should be around 4GB to be on the save side [backtrack changes]
• size of partition 3 should be the rest, with type 0 [b], for another encrypted ap

overview

Disk /dev/sdc: 16.0 GB, 16039018496 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 15296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2352501

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1        7001     7169008    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdc2            7002       11297     4399104   83  Linux
/dev/sdc3           11298       15296     4094976    0  Empty

create filesystems

mkdosfs /dev/sdc1 -n katana
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc2 -L casper-rw

and mount them …

mkdir /media/katana -v
mkdir /media/bt_tmp -v
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/katana -v
mount /dev/sdc2 /media/bt_tmp -v

at first we use unrar to extract the files

unrar x katana-v2.0.rar /media/katana/

change in the freshly copied boot directory

cd /media/katana/boot

and execute the booinst.sh

./bootinst.sh

katana should be successfully installed the usb stick ready to boot

• the tutorial howto make your backtrack persistant can be found here
  

• the tutorial howto encrypt your backtrack and even your changes can be found here

1. Open the boot directory in the root of the Katana drive.
2. Copy the files 'vesamenu.c32' and 'chain.c32' from this directory into the syslinux/kon-boot directory.

this should fix your problems.