Installing VMWare Tools in BackTrack

back|track 2 works much better on vmware when vmware tools is installed. I followed these instructions and hit a snag when the setup asked me for the location of some directories which didin't exist. This forum post helped me with:

for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
do ln -s /etc/rc.d/ /etc/rc$x.d
done

which creates the files needed for vmware-install.pl
and the default answers can be accepted for the rest of the process.
Unless you're unlucky, vmware tools installs nicely.