I managed to remove enough software to bring the size of the .iso to under 700MB and burned a CD that boots. However, it will not boot to the GUI, and I get a text screen. Startx works but is not acceptable. Also it boots as user root instead of user knoppix. User root is probably acceptable if I can get to a GUI on boot.

My project is to produce a network test CD with 5 simple test icons on the desktop for naive users. That means no command line interfaces whatsoever.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.