[lillecarl]

You can always boot any Linux rescue system (Knoppix) and use gparted to figure out the partitioning, then continue their cli install. I do agree that partitioning by commandline is scary biz. A good TUI (think weechat, htop, tmux quality) would do great for this purpose. That is, if the machine is a pet and not cattle.

[peterburkimsher]

Repartitioning from another distro (Elementary in my case, due to WiFi and trackpad support) is what I did for most of the installs. I still wasn't fully sure how to run the CLI commands for a particular partition, rather than a full disk. In the end, Redcore just gave a better installation process for the same backend kernel.

Speaking of Knoppix, though, it worked great for USB boot, but I couldn't for the life of me manage to get Knoppix booting from an internal partition. Flashing the ISO makes 3 partitions from USB, and if I copy those to internal partitions with cp -Lr, and set the boot flags, they're still not detected. Eventually I just used Kanotix.