Writing BackTrack to Your USB Memory Stick
If you plan to use BackTrack regularly or want to customize it, you’ll probably want to speed it up by either creating a BackTrack bootable USB memory stick, or even writing out a full, uncompressed version of BackTrack on your hard drive. The full install will require about 2,700 MB.
If you have a spare 1GB USB memory stick, you can increase your BackTrack performance by turning it into a BackTrack Live-USB key. You just need to copy the BT and boot directories from the CD (or from the ISO) to the root of the USB key and then make it bootable. BackTrack includes a bootinst.bat script in the boot directory to make the USB key bootable. Be sure to run this script from the USB key, not from your hard ...
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