PartedMagic

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PartedMagic 2011_11_24

http://www.partedmagic.com/

Information

ERPXE Module

  • Name: - PartedMagic
  • Version: 2011_11_24

Plugin type

Plugin type
PartedMagic Anti-Virus Deployment Diagnostics OS Installation Live Media Recovery Tools
No Optional No No Yes No

Plugin Requirments

Plugin Requirments
PartedMagic CIFS HTTP Internet NFS Linux OS Windows OS
No Yes Yes No No Yes

Screen Shots

Special Information

The distribution is directly bootable by CD or USB flash drive on PC hardware, and does not require installation, or the presence of an installed operating system.

This allows its use as a recovery tool, as well as a tool to configure new systems. Unlike most Linux distributions, it does not include a method for permanent installation (although this may be performed manually).

Although originally designed for mechanical hard disk drives, Parted Magic is suitable for use also with solid state drives and can perform a secure erase (a method to return a drive to its factory state). Corsair, a major SSD manufacturer, recommends its use as "the most common and user-friendly tool" for performing a secure erase on its drives.

Parted Magic supports reading and writing to a variety of modern file systems, including ext3, ext4, FAT and NTFS, and as such is able to access disk drives formatted for use under Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux systems.

The distribution includes local network and Internet support, and comes with the Firefox web browser.

Linux Installation Instructions

Download partedmagic2011-12-30-XXX.tar.gz to /

https://sourceforge.net/projects/erpxe/files/plugins/

extract partedmagic2011-12-30-XXX.tar.gz file:

tar -xvzf partedmagic2011-12-30-XXX.tar.gz

Download Parted Magic 30-12-2011 ISO Latest Version to /mnt/ :

http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads

Mount ISO file to temporary location (/mnt/cdrom/)

mkdir /mnt/cdrom/
mount -o loop /mnt/pmagic_pxe_2011_12_30.iso /mnt/cdrom/

Copy bzimage , initrd.img to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp /mnt/cdrom/pmagic/bzImage /tftpboot/er/plugins/partedmagic/bzimage
cp /mnt/cdrom/pmagic/initrd.img /tftpboot/er/plugins/partedmagic/initrd.img

Verify files with filelist.txt in each folder.

All Done!