The one thing you have to realize about old laptops is the lack of a lot of capabilities in it's radio, a lot of the auxiliary features for sniffing or hacking or war driving might not be available to those radios. Is your radio an A/B and non G?
You can try puppy as far as small distros. Have you tried xubuntu? -dk On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]>wrote: > My old dell doesn't have capability to boot from usb in the bios. I could > just keep using my cd drive, but there is a bit of lag when I start up a new > operation. I do want to be portable, but in order to relieve Dk's concern > for my using backtrack to sniff or hack on public networks, I think his > admonitions would be better placed in an email written to a 15 year old > delinquent, <chuckle> or maybe he confused me with some guy name Dan Tentler > or something. <chuckle chuckle> On the other hand, thanks for the info about > partitions dk. > > Nevertheless, it seems to me that anything I can do with ubuntu, I should > be able to do with backtrack. I should be able to make backtrack my main OS > for now if I wanted to, or would you say that is not a very accurate > statement? The reason I ask is because anymore, I can't seem to get any of > the new linux distros (specifically variations of ubuntu) to run on my old > dell, but backtrack runs. I know I could install debian, or Arch linux and > get them to run, and I would like to, but I figure it will take some time, > and I want a linux disto on my laptop that I can use now. I don't have a > budget for a new laptop now. I have other bigger items that are more > necessary at this time and my desktop is much more powerful and sufficient > for all my needs. > > Thanks > Paul > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Peter Manis <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Actually the best option is not installing backtrack at all and storing >> only the things you need between boots on a usb key. It has been years >> since I've touched reiserfs so I can't say much, but I can't think of >> anything that is going to make a significant difference when used with BT. >> Is there a reason you can't just boot off a usb key with BT installed? >> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Paul Saenz >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Actually, yeah, I knew that reiserfs has been picked up by and >>> is being maintained by a development team. I had also heard >>> that it was PITA. Nevertheless, when I looked at multiple web >>> pages that described installing backtrack recommended using >>> reiserfs. I don't know why, but I just assumed that reiserfs must >>> be the best fs for backtrack. I also knew that I could use Ext3. >>> I guess I didn't realize how much of a PITA that reiser could be. >>> So I think I will just go along with your reccomendation and use >>> Ext3. I think I'll wait on Ext 4 until they work the bugs out. >>> Thanks >>> >>> Anyways, I think the main thing I could use help with is finding >>> a website where I can get the backtrack installer tool. >>> Anyone? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Chris Louden <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Paul, >>>> >>>> Using ReiserFS you will definitely learn. Honestly its like going to >>>> the school of hard knocks. While that is a very worthy thing for >>>> anyone to do I personally would highly suggest that you use EXT3(old >>>> faithful), EXT4(speed), or XFS(great for large files). Reisers is a >>>> completely good, stable file system, but when there is an issue it >>>> becomes such a PITA. When you are talking about data go with the safe >>>> bet. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Paul Saenz<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Also what is the best tool for formatting to reiserfs? The reason >>>> > I ask that question is because, although I am not certain, but >>>> > it seems to me that some fs writers do a more thorough job than >>>> > others. What that means, I don't exactly know. All I know is that >>>> > some seem to do it in seconds, while others seem to take a much >>>> > longer time. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that it would be >>>> > more likely to lose data with the quick ones. >>>> > >>>> > Thanks >>>> > Paul >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > LinuxUsers mailing list >>>> > [email protected] >>>> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Peter Manis >> (678) 269-7979 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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