Installing BackTrack 5 on a USB

Installing BackTrack 5 on a USB

Requied items:

• A USB flash drive with minimum space of 4 GB
• BackTrack 5 ISO
• UNetbootin

UNetbootin is a program that allows you to create bootable USB drives for linux distros and Windows. UNetbootin will download the distribution or use an ISO file you selected from your hard drive.

• Once UNetbootin is downloaded you can run it by double clicking (Windows)

Plug in your USB Drive.

• Start UNetbooin and select the “diskimage” option, then select your Backtrack 5 ISO.
• Select your USB Drive, then click “OK”.

WARNING: This will format your USB Drive and remove all previous data.

Now you should be able to boot off of your USB Drive with Backtrack 5.