At my Rolla, Missouri, home, I have a desktop computer running Red Hat Linux and a laptop running Windows 2000. They are networked and I lived happily with that for a long time. This summer I had to stay in California for six
weeks so I decided to take the laptop with me and send the desktop from Mailboxes Etc.
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Here are 2 tools that should work in windows, the first one being more flexible and developed IMHO.
Explore2fs: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
FSDExt2:
http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/content.html#FSDEXT2
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For DOS: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/
For OS/2: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/matthieu.willm/ext2-os2/
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
it is basically windows explorer for your ext2 partitions. i have used it to read data off of my drives (well when they were ext2 anyway) with no problems. i never tried writing but that is not recommended anyway.
maybe i should the html support line a little more 
I always liked the 2-disk XWindow system:
http://www.thepub.nildram.co.uk/mirrors/2diskxwin/2diskXwin.htm
But the author seem to have completely take down all its references to it...
And of course, there are the special firewall distros etc, that all fit in 1-2 disks. There are about 5-6 projects like that to be found around.
James, READ how to make links on osnews before you press that darned submit button.
LinuxPlanet had a look at several CD-based rescue discs a little while back: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/4294/1/
CD distros are a lot easyer and more powerfull then floppy distros... try Knoppix. despite it's use of KDE its actually rather fast if you have enough memory (128mb will do). it'll mount all your drives and even autoconfig your CD burner!
KNOPPIX Linux Live CD 3.1 is excellent. I burnt a copy to CD and boot it up on any workstation that I sit at when at college.
If you care to read the 'knoppix-cheatcodes.txt' ( http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt ) then you will find that if you pass this option 'knoppix desktop=gnome' at the LILO bootprompt, it will boot up in GNOME2. TWM, LARSWM and WindowMaker window managers are also available.
Get a copy of timo's rescue cd, and burn it to a business card sized cd. It's saved me on more than one occasion.
Beos was made to fit on one disk, with a web browser, just like QNX.
Those who deny should search through these message boards - it was confirmed by JLG in one of his columns in the newsletter, and also by C. Herboth in the comments of a particular story on this site.
It was just an experiment, I think, and after that, they started developing BeIA.
I know that BFS barely fits on one disk itself, so how did they cram in BeOS and the web browser? Well, Cris mentioned something about a compressed file system, or something. Search on the site - I think they coments were under a story about QNX.
Anyway, if people still deny it, then they should ask their ex-be engineer husbands (hehe...)
Eugenia: did you not see that i owned up to my mistake in the very next post? i would have fixed it if i could have.
No, I did not see it, because I was still writting my own comment when you posted your second one.
hey can anyone tell me what linux distribution is very very small and has a good GUI+not difficult to install?
please this is very important
vasheel
Any Linux user should take a lesson from this guy and read Bootdisk-HOWTO.
Create your own bootable floppy with kernel that supports your system and modules you want to have.
FreeBSD is what you want 
Booting from floppy and mounting arbitrary volumes works pretty well from FreeBSD, and it uses 2 floppies (or 1, depending...).
Not sure if there is a linux distro that fits your needs, but QNX fits all but the Linux part of your request. Check it out if you haven't already.
Russ