Re: Looking for Distro/Live CD with parted

From: johnny bobby bee (useraddshine.eh_at_yahoo.ca.eh)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:24:25 GMT

Jonathan Day wrote:
> 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.

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