Small bootable distro with Ktouch?

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:06:02 -0700, David A. Sinck wrote
> \_ SMTP quoth Jeff Garland on 2/3/2004 19:35 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ Hi all -
> \_
> \_ My daughter's school has a number of donated IBM 600E laptops
> with 32M RAM \_ [...] \_ \_ So I put in my Knoppix 3.2 disk and she
> booted right up -- after 10 minutes \_ :-( And unfortunately, it
> doesn't include KTouch which is the main program \_ I'd like to show
> them. So...
>
> If you've got access to the hard disk, you can shoe horn it on. I've
> got a script I used for the neighbor that pulls a deb from the hd and
> spins it in, changing symlinks and what not.

Ok, I'm sure I don't understand all that...

> The down side is that it requires root to run because you're altering
> the symlink tree. :-)
>
> There might be something with a floppy /kickstart to run the script
> just after boot. Let me know if you're interested, I'll have to dig
> the script up.

Thx for the offer -- I'll keep it in mind. For the moment it looks like I
have enough to do a little demo and gauge their interest. I can show them
KTouch on my more modern laptop running Mandrake and show them that these old
machines can run Linux. I'm sure they would be happy with a simple text pad
compared to looking at a blank screen with no feedback. And, if they say go,
I'll wipe windows off the machine and install onto the harddrive. Besides, I
have to get my hands on a raft of power adapters and sort thru the rest of the
hardware before this will mean much...

Jeff