How Do You Use The Gparted Live CD To Prepare For Linux Installation?
To install Linux on a computer that has never had it installed previously, you must convert the file system of the hard drive to something that Linux can use natively, such as EXT3. Nearly all Linux distributions include disk portioning in the install process, but in some cases, it may not be able to do everything a user may need, such as resizing certain file systems. Fortunately, there is an easy solution to this problem. The GParted Live CD is a feature-rich disk-portioning utility that runs on top of a custom version of Linux. The software runs directly from the CD, so there is no need to install it and then remove it at a later point. Download the latest stable version of the GParted Live CD from the GParted homepage (see Resources below). It will be packaged in the ISO format, which is a bit-for-bit copy of a CD. Burn the ISO image to a blank CD-R. Many CD-burning software packages can handle ISO images, but there are also a variety of free programs available on the Internet, if
