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Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-15 10:18:39
June 15 2010 23:21 GMT
#1
Has anyone read the book Hacking: The Art of Exploitation? I'm having trouble running the Live CD that came with it, so I tried to torrent it, burn it, then run it, but that didn't work either. And then I tried to run it via a virtual machine running ubuntu, but that didn't work either (maybe because the VM is too slow)... If anyone could help me and/or share their experiences with it, that'd be great.

This is the book: http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Art-Exploitation-Jon-Erickson/dp/1593271441

*****
celious
Profile Joined September 2009
United States195 Posts
June 15 2010 23:24 GMT
#2
its a liveCD so you just boot from your cd. Setup a VM to mount your cd drive or ISO and then give it boot priority over your VM hard disk.
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
June 15 2010 23:26 GMT
#3
On June 16 2010 08:24 celious wrote:
its a liveCD so you just boot from your cd. Setup a VM to mount your cd drive or ISO and then give it boot priority over your VM hard disk.

Yes, I did this, and it gave me some memory allocation error. It still "booted" (got me to the first menu), but didn't work.
celious
Profile Joined September 2009
United States195 Posts
June 15 2010 23:28 GMT
#4
try giving your VM more ram at least 512.
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
June 15 2010 23:30 GMT
#5
On June 16 2010 08:28 celious wrote:
try giving your VM more ram at least 512.

I first tried booting it off of my own computer as well, so RAM shouldn't be the problem. Also, I have the default memory allocated the the VM as 512 already.
DeathByMonkeys
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States742 Posts
June 15 2010 23:32 GMT
#6
What OS is it a Live CD of?

You said you checked the VM to mount from the CD drive, but did you try this with your BIOS so you can run it off the regular computer?
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
June 15 2010 23:34 GMT
#7
On June 16 2010 08:32 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
What OS is it a Live CD of?

You said you checked the VM to mount from the CD drive, but did you try this with your BIOS so you can run it off the regular computer?

Yeah that was the first thing I tried, sorry if it wasn't clear in the OP. As to your first question, it's supposed to be a Linux environment.
ClanOverdosed
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
691 Posts
June 15 2010 23:36 GMT
#8
I wouldn't buy books with titles such as those.
Overdosed--www.overdosed.net
DeathByMonkeys
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States742 Posts
June 15 2010 23:41 GMT
#9
On June 16 2010 08:34 Saracen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2010 08:32 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
What OS is it a Live CD of?

You said you checked the VM to mount from the CD drive, but did you try this with your BIOS so you can run it off the regular computer?

Yeah that was the first thing I tried, sorry if it wasn't clear in the OP. As to your first question, it's supposed to be a Linux environment.


Possibly the CD is corrupt (or this is your first challenge, to get the thing working! ).

Anyways if you can't end up getting the thing working then you may just be able to download whatever linux flavor it is off the internet and go from there, but it seems like you tried something like that already. If you already have Ubuntu running it may not matter that much unless the Live CD had pentesting software pre-downloaded for you.

Also check out Backtrack 4, it's a pentesting flavor of Linux based off of Ubuntu that comes with something like 300+ pentesting tools.

Backtrack 4
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
June 15 2010 23:41 GMT
#10
On June 16 2010 08:36 Beloth(OD) wrote:
I wouldn't buy books with titles such as those.

The book itself is actually really good. The CD just provides some "hands on" stuff, which you typically need when learning anything with computers.
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
June 15 2010 23:45 GMT
#11
On June 16 2010 08:41 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2010 08:34 Saracen wrote:
On June 16 2010 08:32 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
What OS is it a Live CD of?

You said you checked the VM to mount from the CD drive, but did you try this with your BIOS so you can run it off the regular computer?

Yeah that was the first thing I tried, sorry if it wasn't clear in the OP. As to your first question, it's supposed to be a Linux environment.


Possibly the CD is corrupt (or this is your first challenge, to get the thing working! ).

Anyways if you can't end up getting the thing working then you may just be able to download whatever linux flavor it is off the internet and go from there, but it seems like you tried something like that already. If you already have Ubuntu running it may not matter that much unless the Live CD had pentesting software pre-downloaded for you.

Also check out Backtrack 4, it's a pentesting flavor of Linux based off of Ubuntu that comes with something like 300+ pentesting tools.

Backtrack 4

The thing is, the book uses examples from the CD, so you're supposed to "follow along" as you read. It's not so much pen testing as learning how code works at a lower level, like assembly. So it would really nice if I could get the actual CD to work.
DeathByMonkeys
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States742 Posts
June 15 2010 23:49 GMT
#12
On June 16 2010 08:45 Saracen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2010 08:41 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
On June 16 2010 08:34 Saracen wrote:
On June 16 2010 08:32 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
What OS is it a Live CD of?

You said you checked the VM to mount from the CD drive, but did you try this with your BIOS so you can run it off the regular computer?

Yeah that was the first thing I tried, sorry if it wasn't clear in the OP. As to your first question, it's supposed to be a Linux environment.


Possibly the CD is corrupt (or this is your first challenge, to get the thing working! ).

Anyways if you can't end up getting the thing working then you may just be able to download whatever linux flavor it is off the internet and go from there, but it seems like you tried something like that already. If you already have Ubuntu running it may not matter that much unless the Live CD had pentesting software pre-downloaded for you.

Also check out Backtrack 4, it's a pentesting flavor of Linux based off of Ubuntu that comes with something like 300+ pentesting tools.

Backtrack 4

The thing is, the book uses examples from the CD, so you're supposed to "follow along" as you read. It's not so much pen testing as learning how code works at a lower level, like assembly. So it would really nice if I could get the actual CD to work.


Could you provide a little more background info? What native OS are you running? You said you have Ubuntu running in a virtual machine, or was that your native OS? You don't know exactly what's on the CD, does the book tell you?
tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3698 Posts
June 16 2010 00:16 GMT
#13
On June 16 2010 08:41 Saracen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2010 08:36 Beloth(OD) wrote:
I wouldn't buy books with titles such as those.

The book itself is actually really good. The CD just provides some "hands on" stuff, which you typically need when learning anything with computers.

I read the first edition of that book like 5-6 years ago, I think. Don't recall it having a CD though. Pretty decent book though, regardless of what the title may make it sound like.
Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-02 15:08:00
June 16 2010 00:18 GMT
#14
On June 16 2010 08:49 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2010 08:45 Saracen wrote:
On June 16 2010 08:41 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
On June 16 2010 08:34 Saracen wrote:
On June 16 2010 08:32 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
What OS is it a Live CD of?

You said you checked the VM to mount from the CD drive, but did you try this with your BIOS so you can run it off the regular computer?

Yeah that was the first thing I tried, sorry if it wasn't clear in the OP. As to your first question, it's supposed to be a Linux environment.


Possibly the CD is corrupt (or this is your first challenge, to get the thing working! ).

Anyways if you can't end up getting the thing working then you may just be able to download whatever linux flavor it is off the internet and go from there, but it seems like you tried something like that already. If you already have Ubuntu running it may not matter that much unless the Live CD had pentesting software pre-downloaded for you.

Also check out Backtrack 4, it's a pentesting flavor of Linux based off of Ubuntu that comes with something like 300+ pentesting tools.

Backtrack 4

The thing is, the book uses examples from the CD, so you're supposed to "follow along" as you read. It's not so much pen testing as learning how code works at a lower level, like assembly. So it would really nice if I could get the actual CD to work.


Could you provide a little more background info? What native OS are you running? You said you have Ubuntu running in a virtual machine, or was that your native OS? You don't know exactly what's on the CD, does the book tell you?

I'm running Vista. According the the book,
The bootable LiveCD provides a Linux-based hacking environment that is preconfigured for programming, debugging, manipulating network traffic, and cracking encryption. It contains all the source code and applications used in the book. Hacking is about discovery and innovation, and with this LiveCD you can instantly follow along with the book's examples and explore your own.
The LiveCD can be used in most common personal computers without installing a new operating system or modifying the computer's current setup. System requirements are an x86-based PC with at least 64MD of system memory and a BIOS that is configured to boot from a CD-ROM.

A few screenshots here
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
June 16 2010 00:46 GMT
#15
When trying to boot from the VM, it gets stuck on a "Loading, please wait..." message.
pettter
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden1032 Posts
June 16 2010 00:55 GMT
#16
Stuck? How long have you waited? It may take quite some time to load all the stuff it will need into memory.
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
June 16 2010 01:01 GMT
#17
On June 16 2010 09:55 pettter wrote:
Stuck? How long have you waited? It may take quite some time to load all the stuff it will need into memory.

I waited maybe 15-30 minutes. Not sure exactly . VMs are so convenient, but incredibly slow...
matteboy
Profile Joined August 2013
1 Post
August 01 2013 12:10 GMT
#18
Did anyone ever find a fix for this as I have the same or similar problem? I have tried the CD as live on my host OS but after the first menu choice it errors out to a command line. I have tried it as a live CD in VB but this time after the first menu it just sits there with a black screen and flashing cursor. I have also tried the torrent as given on the books website but this also does the same black screen in VB. Am I doing something daft or is this a known problem? THanks
Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17726 Posts
August 01 2013 14:09 GMT
#19
Using the iso from the torrent on vmware player worked for me.
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
oneAlone
Profile Joined December 2014
1 Post
December 27 2014 18:51 GMT
#20
It's an old thread, but to solve the "Loading, please wait" screen on VirtualBox try to do this (I am running Win 8.1):
>>run cmd (Command Prompt) as Administrator
>>enter this command without quotes "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off"
>>reboot your pc

This command turns off Hyper-V in Windows, you can google on that.
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