Install Backtrack 3 Beta to HDD

No sound on lenevo 3000 n200 model 0769 after installing backtrack3 final to HDD?
hi i recently install a backtrack3 final on my HDD but no sound at all

i got HDA Audio shows up in alsamixer as Realtek ALC861-VD and try so many thing been looking and searching on line for three days no sound on my laptop i check alsmixer ,alsconf,lspci , lsmod. lspci -v -vvnn i asked question in few places no answer . and so many thing when i try to boot from backtrack this message pop up

please check that
your soundcard is configured properly
you have the correct output plugin selected
no other programe is blocking the soundcard

THIS is what i found backtrack.offensive-security.com below
Lenovo 3000 N200

* wireless card (ipw3945) Seemingly random patterns of disconnection, sometimes takes many tries to connect using wireless assistant
* Soundcard detected by ALSA but not working (Intel HDA RealTek card)

also i just did lsmod this is what it look like

i915 25216 0
drm 74516 1 i915
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 32768 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49872 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10508 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42656 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 2 snd_pcm_oss
pcmcia 35244 0
pcmcia_core 36628 1 pcmcia
capability 7304 0
commoncap 9344 1 capability
fuse 41876 0
lp 13864 0
parport_pc 27940 0
parport 34888 2 lp,parport_pc
pcspkr 6400 0
psmouse 38792 0
arc4 5888 2
ecb 6656 2
hci_usb 18588 0
bluetooth 52964 1 hci_usb
serio_raw 9220 0
iwl3945 169844 0
sdhci 18828 0
tg3 107396 0
mac80211 157192 1 iwl3945
mmc_core 25988 1 sdhci
sg 30364 0
cfg80211 9352 1 mac80211
intel_agp 25500 1
ata_generic 9220 0
snd_hda_intel 20248 1
snd_hda_codec 211712 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 71428 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 46692 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9824 2 snd
agpgart 31304 3 drm,intel_agp
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
shpchp 33300 0
i2c_i801 11536 0
evdev 12032 4

Hi this is what it look like when i put lspci

bt ~ # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controlle
r Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrat
ed Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Grap
hics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contolle
r #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controll
er #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Control
ler #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
(rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (r
ev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (r
ev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (r
ev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (r
ev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controll
er #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controll
er #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controll er #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Control ler #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Contro ller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHC I Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Conne ction (rev 02)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
08:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
08:06.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapte r (rev 19)
08:06.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01)
08:06.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (re v 0a)
08:06.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
bt ~ #

Hey did you try:
#lspci

and looking to see if your sound card is recognized?

If it is, figure out what your sound card is and look and see if it supported by Slax. There may be a generic module you can load for it; but your first step is seeing what you have.

hi well i did try alsamixer also alsaconf i did take look at f2 manue help while on alsamixer tried but no sound yet i looked at line i saw few people got the same problem they still looking for sort it out

Mahabad1972> Give a try to : #alsamixer
It's a sound controller for Alsa.

Hi yes i did try to boot from safe mode and it was still the same it try to log into xp but restart again so i decieded to reunstall it and install again this time works fine i did the same thing as i did at first now i can bot from windows and backtrack3 final both but no sound when i log on backtrack now i try to find a problem i looked at internet for hours last night i opend a shell and type alsaconf it show me some message but still no sound

So you can see XP trying to boot right? Can you hit F8 and boot from safe mode? Did you ever have 2 installs of Windows existing at the same time on the machine? There must be something corrupt related to windows, see if you can mount your C:\ drive from backtrack and let me know.

hi i recently install backtrack3 final on my laptop it works fine i followed this site i did axactly it said in there but when i try to boot from windows at first it start and show you windows xp running for few second then it restart again goes back to lilo boot manu to choose backtrack or windows whatever i choose windows it keep restarting going back the same place i need some advice please thank you

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Installing BackTrack 3 FINAL on your HDD and lilo's configuration :

http://kin.calvin.free.fr/blog/?p=16

yeah I tried what you said to find the install under backtrack in kde start and instructions below, but still couldn't find it. any help would be great.

Try this open up a console and type:

kmdr-executor /usr/share/slax/BT3.kmdr

if that doesn't work try:

kmdr-executor /usr/share/slax/slax-install.kmdr

Still no luck? try:

whereis BT3.kmdr (to see if it is in another directory)

If you cant find it still I will PM the file to you

r00tk1ll

I go to backtrack/ KDE start menu button > backtrack but there i can't see at all the option to install backtrack.

So you just don't see it there at all? It didn't minus over to the side did it? If you can get to the console I think you can relaunch it by typing "kmenu"

Let me know

backtrack/ KDE start menu button > backtrack > install backtrack

I can't find it in Backtrack 3 final.

No problem man, thats what I started this site for. Anyways I heard of that "no implementation" error before from other forums, which apparently is false, I mean why would a partition editor that is supposed to work with windows not support NTFS? Hopefully others will benefit from your problem and solution when they run into that error. See ya.

r00tk1ll | BeyondTheBit

Not sure if this information helps, QTparted is not chucking up the errors it actually thinks it’s done everything correctly & states it’s completed the task perfectly, it’s the terminal window in the background giving me these messages, Yes I know that the terminal window outputs the events from qtparted but it doesn't specify which drive its commenting on giving misleading information.

I followed your other methodology to see if it would work as I fired up QTParted I still received the Warning: Unable to open /dev/hda read-write message, after selecting the free space to partition as EXT3
It still stated with "No implementation: support for opening NTFS File system is not implemented", I continued anyway i pushed the commit button it then stated the "no implementation error" twice followed by "Error File system has incompatible features enabled". I continued anyway I followed everything as I would & IT WORKED!! Even after all of the errors not sure why? I'm guessing that dev/hda1 on my machine is the bt3 CD and it kept remarking it was read-only, other then getting a few HAL.conf errors which I fixed its running PERFECT Thanks r00tk1ll not sure if that comment you left was intended for me but it worked.

type:
whereis libparted (it's probably in /etc or something)

Asuming it is in the /etc directory type "ls /etc/libparted(<-Then Hit TAB). It should fill out the names of the files for you. If I remember correctly you will find a file like libparted-1.8.so.13 or something.

What ever the name is of that file type, I will assume it is libparted-1.8.so.13, type:

mv /etc/libparted-1.8.so.13 /etc/libparted-1.6.so.13
qtparted, it should start qtparted.

The whole problem is that it qtparted is looking for an older version of a library, so you just find the library it is looking for and rename it to the older version, in your case "libparted-1.6.so.13"

Let me know,
r00tk1ll

here

bt ~ # qtparted
qtparted: error while loading shared libraries: libparted-1.6.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What does it say when you type it in the terminal? Did you install parted?

no only if i write in the terminal qtparted it don't start how must i boot can i boot copy to ram?

Ok Lets follow this methodology, I find it easier to just start from scratch than track down crazy errors.

1.) Download the garted live cd here http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
2.) Boot up gparted and select all the partitions on the hard drive, select delete, and then apply.
3.) Now we are assuming we have deleted all the partitions, install xp as normal creating a partition of the appropriate size and format it with ntfs.
4.) Make sure that you can boot into XP and all works as expected, if not tell me the exact error output.
5.) Next lets try to install backtrack, when you get to qparted use the left over space as the ext3 partition and then follow the rest of the install procedure.
6.) if you get this far boot up and see if you get the nice lilo screen or and error.

Just explain to be what happens from this point, hopefully it will work but you know that doesn't usually happen in the tech world.

r00tk1ll

Stump again after several months of having a dual boot system with XP and BT3 that worked perfect, Windows XP crashed as it does
so i reinstalled it and tried running #lilo in BT3 to fix the lilo bootloader didnt work so I started over deleted the partitions and made a new one for windows XP it was NTFS roughly 75% of my hdd like the last time i did it but this time after installing windows XP and running
qtparted in BT3 it stated:
Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/hdc has been opened read-only.

at this point i thought it was a little strange i went about making the EXT3 partition and got the following message:
"ntfs file systems is not implemented yet"
Error: Filesystem has incompatible features enabled
so i stayed up till around 4am trying different partition configurations & reinstalling windows XP. I tried everything I could imagine from changing the primary partition to FAT32 and only making it 20 gig, using chkdsk also tried changing AHCI mode in my BIOS i got the same annoying error as last time then i thought my hdd may be screwed so i brought a new one i still have the same issue.

If any one can help me it would be really nice, it did work on my current system just weeks earlier, if anyone needs any more info i will supply it.

Thank you SOOOOO much.

These instructions are so simple. I followed them and everything worked perfectly.

I will say that i could not get BACKTRACK3 to work like this... BUT this is a problem/bug with BACKTRACK not your instructions.

So once again... THANK YOU! :-)

Did you download parted and qtparted correctly and use pkgtool to install? If so, there has to be some output, what does it tell you when you type qtparted, if it says file not found you may have not used package tool write or the file is in the wrong directory, you can find something like that by typing: "which qtparted". Just let me know what it tells you.

Can somebody help me I've got a problem with installing qtparted and parted. The problem is after #pkgtool. When I installed it and i write qtparted in the commando line the programme doesn't start. And how should i boot it? I always boot with copy to ram

Yes it is always best practice, especially in a developers opinion not to use beta software in production environments. That being said, beta releases are made to be tested and improved. If you just want to test the software installation out and are concerned that there may be some adverse affects on your hardware or primary operating system BACK UP YOUR DATA. However we have been able to successful install BT3 beta on many machines without an issue that couldn't be easily resolved. Hat's off to the development team over at Remote Exploit/Offensive Security.

r00tk1ll | BeyondTheBit

guys be advised that bt3 beta is still under devoloping stage , beta is for bugs report or hardware issues and its not complete yet and dont try to use installer GUI in bt3 cuz if u notice its not tested . i personally will just wait for the final release to come out .

Now hosting the tgz files here due to the inconsistency of the links, hope this helps some of you.

r00tk1ll

finally got the QTPARTED link to work and everything went sorta smooth i installed via your instructions all worked out till i got into backtrack3 and i couldn't mount or access my partition where bt3 was installed because a security policy stopped me i found a way to bypass it with my last installation that was kinda screwed but this one wouldn't let me use trickery to do it probably because it was working properly this time around
but i booted off the BT3 disc again after installation and located hal.conf on sda2
and added these lines to the last policy
(!..Allow members of the 'Plugdev' group to mount volumes --)
(policy group="plugdev")
(policy user="0")
(allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/)
(allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/)
(allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/)
(allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/)
(/policy)

(/busconfig)
(/pre)
sorry the symbols < and > are replaced with ( and )
hope this helps anyone with the same problem you will need to add some more lines to get access to floppy disks and cd roms which you will find on the net your instructions for dual boot work pretty well r00tk1ll when the QTPARTED link works you just need a little bit more info for n00bies like myself thanks anyways. still have problems with adding users and changing passwords