Saving Your BackTrack Configurations
One of the most compelling features of the BackTrack LiveCD distribution is its easy configurability. As we mentioned earlier, all changes to a running BackTrack instance are written only to RAM and not to disk. Configuration changes come in the form of SLAX modules. A module can represent a new file or directory structure, a modified file, a new application created from source code, or a snapshot of the in-memory changes since the session started. Modules are built into the LZM file format using dir2lzm or tgz2lzm. You can also convert Debian/Ubuntu’s DEB packages to the LZM format with deb2lzm, or to SLAX 5 format modules with mo2lzm.
We tested BackTrack on two different Dell laptops. Both had things we ...
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