Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I have looked at some Bart PE info. It's pretty obvious that none of the solutions are trivial. I was R'ing FM's, and forums for several hours today. First of all, I've committed to hitting the library and getting some background on networking. Secondly, I've dusted off a PIII desktop that's been occupying closet space for a few years now. I'm going to turn it into a dual boot server, probably Debian and Server2003 and get some hands on experience (re-invent token ring, maybe).

That's a medium term project. The short term solution, which I found on a Ubuntu forum, is that someone HAS created an application for touchscreens under Linux. It's called Joytouch and the author is Simon Funk. There are details on doing Ubuntu PXE installs and I think that's the way I'm going to go.

I'll report back on the my results. And I will definitely give it a whirl using Knoppix

Thanks
Ian