Having lived in various African countries (east and west) for 13 years I 
would like to add something to an earlier poster's suggestion as to 
electricity.  Depending on your situation, I highly recommend a 12volt 
car type source for your laptop.  A small inverter might be ideal (12vdc 
  -110vac) or 220vac depending on your needs.  If you don't have a car 
to make use of (or even if you do) an extra car battery and a charger 
for it can be bought in country and assuming you have a few hours of 
electricity you can maintain the charge for use with inverter for when 
there is no electricity.

Thad

Pascal Gaudette wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions.  FWIW, I'll be looking
> at Damn Small and Puppy, which were mentioned here,
> but also at Beatrix and some larger "normal" distros
> like Ubuntu.  Since 1GB CF cards aren't too expensive,
> I don't need to use an especially small distro.  Any
> distro that distributes a LiveCD should make a good
> starting point, that will allow me to run read-only
> using ramdisk.
> 
> One distro that might prove especially useful is
> PCLinuxOS, since it includes the ability to (easily)
> create a LiveCD image from any installation (see
> http://livecd.berlios.de/).  This may allow me to
> install to HD, customize to my heart's content, and
> then move that to CF.  We'll see. :)
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> --
> Pascal Gaudette <pascal underscore gaudette at yahoo dot ca>
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