first of all , i installed my backtrack on a flash card and made it executable but when i boot from the flash or from the cd of the backtrack
backtrack successfully installed but the display is not complete ,backtrack display screen is not fully occupying the screen , i have black screen on the four directions with the backtrack screen nearly in the middle
We use the BT3 CD in my SANS Ethical Hacking Wireless course. During labs, sometimes people will have problems getting X running properly. Something I've learned that can work is to kill X Windows (press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace), then from the shell prompt, run:
X -config
This will autoconfigure X and give you a simple window manager. Press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill this simple window manager.
IIRC, this step will write a new configuration file as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new (or similar; read the output on the screen when you kill X). I move this file over the default xorg.conf file:
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then run "startx".
NOTE: If this works (I hope it does), you'll have to repeat these steps each time you boot. Open a bug on the Backtrack Wiki if this solves the problem to let them know.
Best of luck,
-Josh