Looking for Distro/Live CD with parted

From: Jonathan Day (imipak_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/24/04

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    Date: 24 May 2004 10:11:03 -0700

    I'm looking to make one of my computers bootable under Linux, however
    I want to preserve the existing stuff. This means changing the
    partitions, without blasting away anything that's there.

    That's easy - just use parted.

    One problem. Parted runs under Linux, and that's what I -don't- have
    installed.

    What I need, therefore, is a distro or a "live" Linux OS on a CD that
    -also- has parted, so I can change the partition tables.

    You'd have thought that would be no problem. Such a common situation,
    surely Fedora or Gentoo do this! Nope. Neither can resize existing
    partitions.

    Oh, and I'm not spending a fortune on Partition Magic (another
    partition resize tool, which comes in a form I can run straight off),
    when there's a perfectly good free tool that'll do the job - if only I
    could find a way to run it!

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