Duncan wrote:
Peter Humphrey posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below,
on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:58:38 +0000:
I don't mind using whatever tools are available for the initial partitioning
scheme, but this box gets treated pretty much as a development machine
would, with partitions moving up and down and being copied between disks far
more often than lots of people would find comfortable!
A nice, easy, graphical program like Partition Magic is just the thing for
that. I don't have to have a Windows partition to run it from, as version 8
can boot from its own CD. That's a DOS version of course, so pretty
partition labels are out, but they can easily be changed with tunefs later.
I don't know if the new Mandriva still has it or not, and if so the name
may well have changed, but back when I was running Mandrake (8.x, 9.x),
the first CD of their install disk had disk-drake on it, to help with the
partitioning of the drive during install. As I mentioned, it has a very
pretty graphical interface that any Partition Magic user should take to
immediately. It's only a CD image's worth of download, and the CD is
bootable, so it might be worth trying out.
It may also be possible to get the RPM to run on a Gentoo system, but I'm
not sure what sort of dependency issues one would have to tackle, first.
Maybe I'll try it someday and see.
Go get the System Rescue CD www.sysresccd.org. It's bootable from CD,
has great utilities for recovery and includes QtParted, which I've used
on many occasions with no problems. I keep a copy of that CD handy at
all times.
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