Making a very small Knoppix

[decko]

Hi. First of all, I know there are hundreds of post regarding remastering and I HAVE searched the forum, but didn't find anything useful. I want to make a very small Knoppix without any software (firefox,open office etc.) and I want it to be command line. Then I want to add a few programs such as Lynx and some other programs. The reason I want it so small is that I want to have it on my 128mb USB stick. I read the remastering howto but I think it seems a little overkill to transfer 2GB of data just to make a 40-50mb distro. Isn't there another way of doing this??

[UnderScore]

You are right, 2GB down to 100MB is a lot of work. See other linux distros like slax, DSL and puppy that are smaller than 128MB. See also small linux without GUI etc needed

[jstreich]

DSL is 50MB, enough to fix on a bussiness card sized CD and even has a USB drive install.
Firefox and OpenOffice aren't comandline programs, they require X, and DSL (Damn Small Linux) has X, FireFox -- don't recall if OpenOffice is included or not.