School Project; please read

[Robert Hodgins]

> Unless you are using Knoppix (or have some very high powered machines
> with tons of ram) I'd recommend staying away from Live CD's. There is
> nothing more embarrassing than trying to bring up an Ubuntu Live CD on
> an old machine with only 256M or even 512M in front of a class.

There is another distro called DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/)
that is a live CD AND (in a version called embedded) can be saved to a
Windows partition and run inside windows (I think it runs off qemu).
Again, it could be slow in either form on a slow machine.

You can get the downloads and play with them at:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/

Note that DSL is based on Debian.