From my knowledge the only system in the school that does not use Windows is the computer science departments main server that is both a webserver and file server. That uses Unix.

Thanks alot for your help I will look into it some more and I will ask more questions once I get things sorted out. I have been messing about with Slax-live. Only problem with that is that it does not support all hardware on my laptop and I can't get it to connect to the internet