welcome mate im not the guy guy anymore yey lol still very new to all this myself thou the guys on here are pretty good but try and helpyourself with the search tool as you can find what your after most of the time without having to ask. good luck friend

yeah i know where you mean i tried that but when it comes to booting it stops halfway though and says fatel error that shouldnt happen press crtl alt del to reboot

oh ok will leave it then lol

thanks for the help its much appreciated

is there a cmd to disable the dhcp

thanks again for the reply

no its my router just to clear that up guess i will keep on trying thanks for the reply

right i got backtrack 3 onto my hard drive like this -

formatted hdd
extracted bt3 and boot folders from the live cd
copied them over to the hdd
went into cmd then to the hdd then found the bootinst file
ran that to make bootable ( dont know if that was the right thing to do )
hey presto it boots from my hdd

right i dont know if the above way is the right way or if its completly wrong but it boots up and it wont when i run it from a cd and then install to the hdd that way.

my qyuestion is i want to run it as my main O/S so therfore im looking to keep files saved on there and settings so how do i do that am i being dumb ? did i do somthing wrong in a big way lol im reading as much as possible and i am new to all this and i dont want you guys jumping on me for not using the search feature when thats about all i have done for the last day or so just trying to get the bloody internet to work on it when i was running it off a cd

please help someone and sorry for posting a lot just recently but hey when i know what im doing i can help others right

thanks guys

Ok guys im still having problems Im reading as much as possible to try and help but this is beyond me at the moment this is a copy of the crash data

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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1229015344 (LWP 7693)]
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[KCrash handler]
#5  0x080684fb in ?? ()
#6  0x0806fbdf in ?? ()
#7  0x08074b72 in ?? ()
#8  0x08068e98 in ?? ()
#9  0x08068d0e in ?? ()
#10 0xb77c70c9 in QObject::activate_signal ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#11 0xb7aee624 in QListView::doubleClicked ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#12 0xb7d65be2 in KListView::doubleClicked () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.4
#13 0xb7d6c4fb in KListView::contentsMouseDoubleClickEvent ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.4
#14 0xb78dba6f in QScrollView::viewportMouseDoubleClickEvent ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#15 0xb78d8d71 in QScrollView::eventFilter ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#16 0xb78a7746 in QListView::eventFilter () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#17 0xb77c69d6 in QObject::activate_filters ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#18 0xb77c6a3b in QObject::event () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#19 0xb77ffd5c in QWidget::event () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#20 0xb7768817 in QApplication::internalNotify ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#21 0xb77696e9 in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#22 0xb716b8ee in KApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#23 0xb7709cf9 in QETWidget::translateMouseEvent ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#24 0xb7708bcc in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#25 0xb7718ee1 in QEventLoop::processEvents ()
   from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#26 0xb777f141 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#27 0xb777efe6 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#28 0xb776847f in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#29 0x08052969 in ?? ()
#30 0xb7304df8 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#31 0x08052681 in ?? ()
 
any ideas because i sure as hell dont lol

what distro is backtrack 3 guys im sorry for asking but im on a mission to learn linux

lol is this part of the joy of linux lol

right says its connected its not dropping but theres no internet

what now

ok will reboot now and post back in a few mins thanks

Hey Darksat

im about 6 ft above it in the spare room, it seems to connect now after i restarted and pluged in the wifi usb but now a box pops up saying its disconnected and would i like to reconnect so at least its not on and off every 10 seconds lol.

no it dosent seem to be pinging

 

right small update dont quite know how but i seem to have got both wireless devices working to a degree they both show up on the Konsole so i see i have a ultimate signal strength i put in the the details required to connect to the wifi and it connects right away but within seconds it says dissconnecting and reconnects over and over and over

any ideas ?

Thanks,

Is there any reason why it says i have a great connection then but wont actually connect ?i do the ifconfig up and notthing seems to happen ?

Hi guys I have looked to see if you have a noob section but I didnt see one nor a new members section so here I am, The names maggot im a complete noob I mean seriously new noob. Im good with computers as I work for Fujitsu on MOD sites and various other sites. So here goes as im sure you have all guessed how do i get drivers installed for a wireless card lol sorry guys. Im running backtract 3 off of the cd i do plan on installing it on a hard drive in the future and no im not some wana be hacker that is gona get his answer and bugger off I really want to get into pen testing and tis is how im gona learn so please help.

Right the interesting stuff i am running backtrack 3 off of the cd on a desktop 200gig hdd 3200+ amd 64bit athlon 2 gig ram ati gfx card dont know if you need to know any of this so sorry if you dont, right i have a belkin wireless pci card and also a netgear wg111v2 usb wireless card

cant seem to get the usb working but in the KWiFiManager it says i have a strong connection but will it buggery connect to the internet any help at all or suggestions would be amazing thanks guys