Hey, since there are server execs openly available on the inet, why don't someone -with more free time than me...- put them in the knoppix lite CD, and make a simple script or something to tell him where to look for the game files. You place "gaming knoppix" cd in one cd unit, the halflife/quake1|2|3/whatever cd in the other and there you go!

You don't need much of a openoffice or kde3 to make it work (hell, it may use only text mode, or a small icewm or similar instead!) so you can cut down some good MB. If we are lucky enough it may work from a cdrw small 3.5'cd .

This way, the next lanparty I get I may take my old PII with me and turn it into a "gaming dedicated server box" in two minutes, have some shoots, and when the people gets cooled down take the cd away, place the normal knoppix cd instead and surf the web for half an hour... until another round starts.