Ho 25F! That sounds neat. Obviously a better solution, though it has been instructive to think about other possibilities. I checked the Knoppix site last night and it seems pretty interesting. I'll follow your advice & look at it. Thanks for the tip!
Now all FBW has to do is to learn a few temporary rudiments of Linux... Akcherly I'm sure one could compile a stripped-to-the-bones kernel with not much more than Samba and a shell script to do the job that just might fit of a floppy or two.
AFAIK the files won't care what sized partition they're on or whether it's FAT or FAT32 so long as they get there and are correctly entered in the table?
For the non-hacker to do the required unusual operation with the least tears then from what I can gather Ghost (or the 30 quid) would be the answer. I hope FBW will tell us what he eventually did!