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I Run BackTrack3 through Virtual Box - VMWare Like - All Changes Are Not Saved. Why?

I run BackTrack3 through VBox. Changes are not preserved. All of them go away once i shutdown VBox. How can i preserve the changes?

I feel dealing with linux commands is cumbersome, there alot of technical details. Please explain it easily since i'm not an expert - yet.
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Backtrack is a LiveCD distro. It's not supposed to preserve changes as it is supposed to run in a cdrom. You don't need save things

>I feel dealing with linux commands is cumbersome, there alot of technical details. Please explain it easily since i'm not an expert - yet.
That's the way linuxers like it :)
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>>Backtrack is a LiveCD distro. It's not supposed to preserve changes as it is supposed to run in a cdrom. You don't need save things

By the way, i'm running BT3 from .ISO that resides in my HD. I'm not inserting a CD, so my VBox runs it without putting any CD. Note: i'm not using the VMWare version.
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I will check the video. It seems helpful.
>By the way, i'm running BT3 from .ISO that resides in my HD
Then, why do you want it to save progresses, if you run it from a read only iso? :)
Install it permanently in a partition and then virtualize that partition so that you can access it under Linux
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If install it permanently in my HD partition, then there is no need to virtualize it, since i already can boot from the BIOS. I will see the list of various OS to choose before booting such as

Windows Vista
Ubuntu
BackTrack3

Basically, what i want to do is the following:

Move the folder that carries BT3 + Changes to my external hardrive, so in case if my PC breaks,
I just load this folder to my newly installed OS & Install VBox, then run BT3 on VBox without starting from BIOS. I hope you got my point. If you got some tips for this, feel free to drop some.

The video link you have provided is great...

Thanks
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This gave me an idea, what steps should i take