Using Parted Magic an Introduction

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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/y1p9t2rdQ3Pf3I3l90x8zwtWBP2fYJpFGkM_eCmcQyNTwaZnh_vMtHHeCzXafJhkn5kWGekvWF6uzZQjpXJV9M5T7pPIOxp6wNI/select%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/y1p7_Uo5OzfndMl5XnE6j17ry5sVbzWknWBilgV9eO-Sh4VKBfOWQdOE6lhSSxkIcEp-s9AI26ADWcwuIQ-syhW8SOZR17x2HUz/prompt2.png

Next to select graphical mode, I always choose xvesa. It always works for me:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p7_Uo5OzfndOAq7mr8hCdTleIfQmpg5ijipsekY09yHt1NyHT9DgzrO-JBOMkdzlP3DGcAMMTF4UFhoIV5I_FD6wUupwv-yiJ/select%20xvesa.png

The desktop:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pjFl-y-N9nkp1vsm_P-2ZEkkmCWiLH-LpGJ4XReQzHfsJFZiAH-1NULslmIwBA-03p4ENwzxX3xMhu7NrXEkoIi2PVPNO8jWy/PM-desktop.png

The Partitioner and Terminal:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pdDPrYr-EAFASrtU3uQpgwD3ZwnVWRQ73tkBvOmB5QmIDPqPLfZfHttzL7TxU_cRcet9Wu_qcPCkUbZbrH3BnO3HEiI9O1FIA/term%20and%20parted.png

Take a screenshot:
http://apum9q.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pFDGmrhabJs7t1D73SGR5-tRMrB3_RpS66Zyw0ZgadBuwW0ld6skF9Kw0jJOO3f73HYrGOusE7_h-Q3D46oD1KghYEDBwx_on/take%20screen.png

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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.

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

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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.