I'll look around for the distro. I know I saw a discussion of one on the F@H Linux forum but don't remember where.
Why not just add an old hard drive and boot from it until the other partition is needed? I have a collection of drives I have dug up this winter from 40 mb to 20 gb. Some of them might even work.
I even think I saw a 20 mb MFM drive but don't remember if it was a Seagate or a Conner. Afraid to look too closely.
I would probably have done that except I'm almost exclusively using laptops. I really don't want to be pulling HDDs from them with all their wonderful proprietary systems.
Besides the system I want to do this with now uses a 2 1/2" SATA.
Just want to minimize the headache.