A little recipe on how to strip down the rescue CD.
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1. Choose isolinux as the bootloader and, very important, choose the
   cloop option in config_build.

2. Delete some files that we won't need and that only waste space.

    * rm -rf _system/_cd/usr/doc/*
    * rm -rf _system/_cd/usr/share/doc/*
    * rm _system/_cd/usr/share/info/*
    * rm _system/_cd/var/log/*

3. Clean up some directories.

    * Remove all locales from the directory _system/_cd/usr/share/locale,
      except "en".
    * Remove all translated manual pages from the directory
      _system/_cd/usr/man.

4. Remove some packages.

The following list depends a bit on you, so maybe you need mondo, but
you want to throw away partimage for example. However, you need to trash 
one or another goodie - 50MB are just too less:-(

    * pkg_remove apt

5. Clean up the rest.

    * find _system/_cd -name "*-old" -exec rm {} \;
    * rm -rf _system/_cd/usr/lib/varbase/cache	
    * rm -rf _system/_cd/usr/lib/varbase/lib/apt
	

That way the image size with ver. 0.9.8 was ~40MB.