http://ids.surfnet.nl/downloads/kicklist.txt

it cut the version down to 130mb. i think it had something to do with kde-data. through trial and error i got it down to about 430, which was good enough for me. i just wanted the large packages removing to squeeze it as small as possible whilst still being able to run knoppix-mkimage and have mc, wget, lynx and xampp webserver running.

i'll settle for 430 mb unless someone tells me which pesty crettin of a program in the IDS kicklist is causing knoppix-mkimage to not pick up my partitions...