Using Parted Magic an Introduction

[caf4926]

Working with Parted Magic

Why:


It is a Live CD and a great partitioner tool. You can use the Roxterm to get info like fdisk -l or to repair your grub bootloader.


Booting:
I prefer to boot it in Failsafe. It may fail in other modes


Failsafe:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/...20failsafe.png


Watch a load of scrolling text and eventually you arrive at a prompt. Here type menu and hit enter:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/...Uz/prompt2.png


Next to select graphical mode, I always choose xvesa. It always works for me:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/...ct%20xvesa.png


The desktop:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/...PM-desktop.png


The Partitioner and Terminal:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/...d%20parted.png


Take a screenshot:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/...e%20screen.png

[BrownieCat]

I've used Parted Magic, to delete my unwanted partitions to make space to install openSUSE. And I must agree that it is a very good partitioning tool; user-friendly, powerful, etc. etc. On booting into it, it looks like a whole operating system instead of just a partitioning tool.

[FlameBait]

Good Stuff. I was glad to donate to them to keep the project going.

[wrbbt]

I hadn't notice this post until now. But I must say thank you to caf4926 because it has been very useful to me, and it's very clear.
I didn't know how to make a partition to install opensuse in a PC running Windows 7. W7 doesn't offer many possibilities. With the information of this post, I did it perfectly.
Thanks again.