Other Help Topics :: How was it stripped down to 50MB?

remastering is more on updating an existing knoppix like distro.  I was hoping someone or some docu's that tells you what you can remove and what you shouldn't.

for e.g. if you debootstrap, dpkg won't allow you to remove some of the deb packages because their the core packages that made the base system.

However, there are some workaround with this I know for sure someone has done this and I'm hoping not to re-invent the wheel.

My goal is to create a gibraltar like distro as small as DSL perhaps smaller because I would need only iptables & apache & php.  It would be a great start for me to learn embedded/tiny/micro linux distribution.  I've already started knoppix from scratch but its too fat.

I want to do this because of my curiosity and give a headstart for curios guy like me how to build your own that suits your desire.