So I spent 10 hours getting this downloaded iso to work. The d/l is 845 MB, and a CDR is only 700 MB. My burning software (sounds like Neto) would not let me burn a CD-ROM ISO to a DVD+R. I did some checking around, and a resolveresolutions website (with all its fancy Microsoft certification bling at the bottom) was more full of tihs than I am. It's obvious he never did it, or he would know that there isn't any 3 GB ISO file that is created, (rather the 2 folders 'boot' and 'BT4' are repacked into an ISO of the same filesize that was originally downloaded). Some other ID10T posted on a site that "Burn4Free" would handle cooking the ISO to a blank DVD - this was so wrong, and the little hack bar that it tried to install in my browser was cut off in a New York Minute! Basically Here's what I did that got the BackTrack 4 - beta.iso to work:
I used WinRar to extract 2 folders (boot and BT4) out of the iso file. I extracted these 2 folders to c:\BT4. I then edited the c:\BT4\BT4\make_iso.bat file as follows:
set DVDLABEL=BT4
BT4\tools\WIN\mkisofs.exe @BT4\tools\WIN\config -o "%1" -A "%DVDLABEL%" -V "%DVDLABEL%" .
I could be an idiot here wherein I didn't need to change the "cdlabel" entries (x3) to "DVDLABEL", but it was one of the things I did when it worked. I saved the file and re-created the ISO (syntax: make_iso.bat c:\bt4.iso)
Next I pulled the c:\BT4.ISO into imageburn, and before I burned the file, I navigated to the tools (drop-down menu), then selected settings, and under the "write" tab, the first drop down box was set to any, and I changed it to DVD. This option seemed to force the ISO to write to a DVD (when before imageburn demanded a CD).
After burning, I put the burned disc into my DVD reader drive, and voila, Backtrack 4 started to boot from the (bootable) DVD+R single layer. I entered root as the user and toor as the password and then it came to a shell prompt (or whatever you call it, I'm not a Linux guy here!) at the prompt, I entered "startx" and hit the enter key.
Once I came up to the Backtrack 4 desktop, the graphics were stunning, and the welcome audio ditty was a relapse to the Mortal Combat theme. As far as the interface goes, It is still quite similar to Backtrack 3, except that it's missing a couple of the utilities such as a wireless connection manager and Airoscript. I am sure the command line for PenTesting work, but the automated Airoscript wasn't found.
