USB Drive Setup For BackTrack 4 Beta

If you already have a formatted USB drive, that loads BackTrack 3 Final or 4 Beta, you can skip this article.

If your drive isn't formatted correctly:

Follow Sanjat Kabi's "Install Linux to a USB flash drive" steps 4-11.

Changes I used for BackTrack 4 Beta DVD:
Replace +750M with +1000M.
type c to select W95 FAT32 (LBA) where Sanjat says to type 6 for FAT16

After running UNetbootin, you should have a working boot of Backtrack 4 Beta. However, if you see the message "Boot Error" during startup:

1. Plug your USB drive into a MS Windows system.
2. Right-click the Windows Start button and select "Explore."
3. Go to your USB drive and right-click the drive letter, then select "Format." (Be sure you are on the correct drive and not your C: windows drive.) Select FAT32 and do not check "Quick Format."
4. After formatting is done, run UNetbootin from Windows.
5. Click on the "Diskimage" option.
5. Select your BackTrack 4 Beta DVD iso (I'm assuming you have already downloaded and verified the md5sum of the iso).
6. After UNetbootin installs and configures BackTrack 4, just restart and hopefully you don't get that "Boot Error" message.

Depending on your USB drive, you may or may not have to do the above steps. I had to do these steps for a Super Talent 4GB USB 2.0 drive.

NOTE: FAT16 and FAT32 both worked for me.