I don't know if you can boot the Auditor CD from within VPC.
But even if you can, it would seem to be contrary to the purpose of Auditor. I think the idea of Auditor is to have a known-good copy of the OS running from a read-only medium in order to be able to check for security problems. If you are running Auditor under the control of some other software (assuming this is possible) then you've lost that "known-good" assurance. I.e. an infected system could change things so that the Auditor tools would report whatever it liked.

Did you try? What happened if you did?

Knoppix
 

Is similiar to a preinstall enviroment (PE) and runs off of an image. The Damn Small Linux kernel (DSL) is based off of KNOPPIX and is 50mb in size and can be put onto a bootable thumb drive to boot it from usb. It even has a web browser and network support.

So basically you are booting off that image from that disk you made. First off it has to either support x86 or PPC and to my knowledge there is no KNOPPIX package that will run on PPC based hardware, though I could totally be wrong.

Here are some relevant links:

http://www.knoppix.org/

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

I have used the DSL install and have it on my thumb drive. These virtual OSes so to speak are good for testing a machine to rule out software as a possible problem or to by pass other botched software issues to access data. They are not really that good for running your actual system on. There could also be some good cases to use this on an enterprise level when you don't want your users to be able to write to the drives or add or change any of the software, and then have them save their current work and progress on a network share.

Overall, you are best off just installing linux on a machine to learn it, this kind of stuff should come later when you want to learn how to use different methods of troubleshooting.

If you have a PPC based system I suggest you load Yellow Dog on it, it has been around forever with macintosh hardware and is one of the more developed for mac distros out there. If you have an intel mac you can basically pick your flavor. I use/have used: fedora, SUSE, mandrake, open, slackware, correl (i think they stopped making linux distros), and I am just now dabbling around with the newer distros.

Check this link out for more info

http://lcic.org/distros.html

I hope that maybe helps answer your questions.

O.K I decided to go through and try the VPC proccess, so for who dont know how Virtual Pc works, or justs so I will run through what I did here I go. First I open VPC, then I go to File, Then Click "New". So now I am making a new virtual pc. So the screen pops up with different choices, so I click install my own operating system. So then i can choose from any windows version, DOS, UNIX, or Linux, and I chose Linux. And then it automatically chooses the disk format, as unformatted. Then I just click create so its created. So when I try to start it up it says, insert the disk or boot cd. I just burned Auditor to a cd, now I am going to put Auditor, in my cd drive. But before I do anything, when I put Auditor in my cd drive, will anything happen? Like it wont do anything to my mac riight, heres the link from which i downloaded Auditor from. I am just wondering if Auditor will boot up on my mac or something, and mess with some stuff.

Download Page: http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Auditor_mirrors

This is the version that I downloaded, I forget which one I downloaded it from, but there all the same.

auditor-200605-02-ipw2100.iso
This version is for all systems except systems with the Intel B/G wireless cards (IPW2200).
The md5sum of auditor-200605-02-ipw2100.iso is "cdec4b975c1001ddc127a16a32ed1dd7"
Transfertype Download link auditor-200605-02-ipw2100.iso
HTTP http://ftp.rz.tu-braunschweig.de/pub...02-ipw2100.iso
FTP ftp://ftp.rz.tu-braunschweig.de/pub/...02-ipw2100.iso
HTTP http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/a...02-ipw2100.iso
FTP ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/audito...02-ipw2100.iso

I don't think that the auditor distro, based on KNOPPIX will work on any PPC based hardware system. Check this link for details..

http://www.remote-exploit.org/index....itor_dev_list1

I would like to maybe point you in the right direction but I am not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish here.

Are you:

1) Trying to run linux natively on your mac?
2) Trying to run a PE for testing?
3) Trying to dual boot OS X and Linux?
4) Or just trying to get Auditor to work

I do know know exactly what Auditor does, but I am very familiar with KNOPPIX type of installs, since I have DSL on my 1gig thumb drive and can boot off of it and for the most part most major x86 hardware is supported in a limited capacity.

So what is it exactly are you trying to accomplish with Auditor on your mac? There may be an alternative solution for you.

Number 4.........

I don't think it will work with PPC based hardware, it wasn't listed in their compatability list.

You can probably run it on an intel mac, but there may not be any support for it. Since it runs off an image the drivers are preloaded in the image, so if something is not supported, like lets say your wifi nic card, then its not going to work when you boot off the auditor cd.

You may just want to scrap together a cheap old PC or get an old laptop and run it, or find something that supports PPC based hardware. It may be possible to run the packages that are in auditor in like Yellow Dog, or something similiar.

Well, I downloaded an ISO of auditor and ran it on one of my laptops here. it is basically a PE type image that runs completely off the cd, so you don't have to install anything you just boot off the cd.

It comes packed with system and network analyzers, packet sniffers, wep and wpa crackers, etc.

All of the apps that are on this package are available for mac os x, you need to just go over to version tracker and look up some of that stuff and download it.

You can also probably make a bootable image of it to, but you would have to build it from scratch.

thanks for the help on the previous page :)

Did you run it on a mac laptop??

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I don't have access to an intel based mac laptop atm, we only have a few macbooks and they are out to the users (i don't get cool stuff like that, the users do:mad: ) Auditor will probably not run unless the hardware is supported, it definately will not run on a PPC based mac.

The ISO is meant to be burned to a cd. It is an image file, so I just used Nero, and burned the ISO to a CD and booted from it. When you burn the ISO, the burning application converts the image to the original data. It is a live cd, so when you boot off of it, it loads the OS just like you were booting off a HD.

As for getting a cdrom to boot from VPC, you would have to ask someone who is more familiar with VPC. I have always just either used a mac or a PC, and never really messed around with VPC. I am going to guess that you cannot emulate a hardware enviroment for the auditor CD.

Well I am on a normal pb g4, i just want to know how change my cd rom so that it will boot iso's