I recently got Damn Small Linux LiveCd with a book. It also Contained Debian Installer CD1. It's based on knoppix... Got it working out of the box within 5 minutes. Since it runs on most hardware( auto detected my nvidia Gpu ), It's really cool b'coz it can really be used in any kinda machine.
It had some System Adminstrative tools too like gparted, but ne1 knows how to use them to edit partitions in Hdd's. ??