DeadMini is a tiny distribution designed for modular usage. DeadMini linux is currently under heavy developement, but so far it contains applications such as dropbear client, midnight command and of course screen.

The main advantage is that it boots anywhere - wherever you can stick the files, use something like syslinux or isolinux to make it boot - and of course make bios boot the medium - it will boot without a trouble. This is because the whole system (currently 5MB, including booting overhead) is copied in RAM without the need to seek the source device. It also boots very fast - minimal bootup time is about 3s (further testing will be done).

It is possibly buggy yet, especially HW autodetection isn't perfect, but it will be developed - the most important issue here is feedback, both bugreports AND patches - the detection is in /sbin/mod-detect.

The point of DeadMini is to be quite modular, hence the aim is to distribute the core system and tools for building, installing and removing packages. Therefore, what you want is 'dtools' and 'deadcore'. Deadcore contains the base system, dtools is set of tools to manage dmp (DeadMini packages) and build the actual iso. You also certainly want the extra modules - otherwise, the only modules inside are for networking. The iso released here is only the core system.