COMP 3000 2011 Report: DEFT Linux: Difference between revisions
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DEFT is a LiveCD .iso so startup is as easy as setting the BIOS to boot from the CD/DVD drive, and inserting a disc with the burned iso. No virtualization software was needed, but first attempts at running this distribution involved the use of VirtualBox. | DEFT is a LiveCD .iso so startup is as easy as setting the BIOS to boot from the CD/DVD drive, and inserting a disc with the burned iso. No virtualization software was needed, but first attempts at running this distribution involved the use of VirtualBox. | ||
After booting up in a VirtualBox VM with 512 MB RAM allocated, it was soon realized that in order to get a true experience out of DEFT, being a forensic tool, it would be more appropriate to run on an existing machine running Windows. | After booting up in a VirtualBox VM with 512 MB RAM allocated, it was soon realized that in order to get a true experience out of DEFT, being a forensic tool, it would be more appropriate to run on an existing machine running Windows. | ||
A disc was burned and when the CD was put into a machine running live Windows 7, an .exe containing many of the forensic tools in the DEFT OS was run. This not being what was wanted, after a restart the machine booted into the DEFT startup menu. [[File:Screen_startup.png]] | |||
===Basic Operation=== | ===Basic Operation=== | ||
Revision as of 03:32, 19 October 2011
Part 1
Background
Installation/Startup
DEFT is a LiveCD .iso so startup is as easy as setting the BIOS to boot from the CD/DVD drive, and inserting a disc with the burned iso. No virtualization software was needed, but first attempts at running this distribution involved the use of VirtualBox.
After booting up in a VirtualBox VM with 512 MB RAM allocated, it was soon realized that in order to get a true experience out of DEFT, being a forensic tool, it would be more appropriate to run on an existing machine running Windows.
A disc was burned and when the CD was put into a machine running live Windows 7, an .exe containing many of the forensic tools in the DEFT OS was run. This not being what was wanted, after a restart the machine booted into the DEFT startup menu. 