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• February 18, 2012
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  USB install: 8 Gigs not enough

  Posted: February 18th, 2012, 11:27pm PST by jbmaster

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  Hi, all.
  
  First of all, sorry for my written English.
  I'm having problems installing Backtrack to my USB.
  My first attempt to install was using 2 partitions where 1-st is for boot and second is reserved for installation (like it's written in tutorial, actually).
  I have only 8Gb pendrive (which is a bit less in real life gigabytes). After installation reached 99% progress bar paused, but writing process was still active. It took a long time on this 99% stage. Then i received message about insufficient space on the disk. However, i had more than 5Gb free before setup. I looked everywhere in internet and found that even 4Gb is enough to install Backtrack 5R1, however 5 wasn't enough for me. So i decided to format my usb drive to have 1 partition with little less than 8 gigs of space. Seemed quite enough for everything. I ran my installation within VirtualBox, selected pendrive as my destination and "use all disk" option. But it just did the very same thing. After 99% it started to eat pendrive's space until nothing was left. Of course, kicked me out with the same error about insufficient space on my disk.
  Is it true that 8Gb isn't enough for the installation or is it me being stupid somewhere?
  
  Thanks for your help, i hope you'll help me with that.
  
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