Hi Guys,
Just bought a laptop and want to install Backtrack2.0 on there. Never really done much with Linux, so I thought I’d give it a go.

I booted my machine with a liveCD and split my HDD into 3 NTFS partitions. Installed XP on the first, allocated the second for data storage and a third partition for Backtrack.
When I boot of the backtrack CD, I have a couple of issues which I’d like some assistance with if I could please:

a) When I use the backtrack installation option it asks me where I want to install. I set the partition to install to sda3 (the blank NTFS partition -> Is NTFS the problem here?) and /sda as the device tow rite the MBR, but when I hit install it says it completed in about 2 seconds, even though there’s 2700MB to install. Lol. When I reboot the machine there’s no trace of backtrack and it just boots into XP as normal. Anything Im doing wrong (well obviously there’s something, but the question is what! Hehe!). Im not given an error message though.
b) The OS doesn’t recognise my Wireless card. It’s the intel pro wireless built in card on my dell dimension 6400. Is this compatible (and are they any good these wireless chipsets?)? What do i need to do to get it to work?

Thanks guys

HELP!!!!

I reformatted the linuz partition as FAT32 which did the trick. The install went ahead and copied everything as it should. But........

When I rebooted I get no bootloader whatsoever, it just boots straight into Backtrack!

How do I get a bootloader so I can select the OS?

Thanks

EDIT: bit of a saga this. It wont even boot. It boots straight into Backtrack but dies on its arse with the message:

KERNEL PANIC - NOT SYNCING: VFS: UNABLE TO MOUNT ROOT FS ON unknown-block(8.3)
after a whole host of other errors, including "bad magic number" "codepage cp437 not found" and "RAMDISK: Coulnd't find valid ramdisk image starting at 0"

LOL - I haven't a clue what's happened!!!