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Mark D. Spivey

"Practical Hacking Techniques and Countermeasures"

There is an option to install WHAX to the hard drive but I have had
several issues with it installing correctly.
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The WHAX CD will begin to boot.
Be patient when the boot screen displays copying rootchanges as this
process may take a few minutes.
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The login screen will be displayed. WHAX is nice enough to tell you the
login name and password. Username: root / Password: toor
Log into WHAX.
The next step is to verify the video resolution settings for Xwindows. Type
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf and press Enter.
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The contents of the xorg.conf file will be displayed.
Scroll down until you see the Subsection "Display" area.
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Press the Insert key and the word ??“INSERT??“ will appear across the lower
left side of the screen.
Because the default depth is set to 24 we only need to change that one
entry. You can edit the line directly, but for this example, I simply stopped
the original line from being executed by placing a # sign in front of the text.
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Press the Enter key to start a new line and type the desired screen
resolution:
Modes "800x600"
Press the Esc key to stop the Insert mode. The word ??“INSERT??“ will
disappear from your screen.
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Now save the file by typing wq! and pressing Enter.


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