Ok, i need a slack install, that will take up as little space as possible.

It is not intended to be interactive, it just has to boot, run a script, reboot.
It has to be able to connect to a NFS and mount a NTFS and FAT disks.

Can some of you guys (or ladies 2BPC) drop some advice in my direction.

10x

See my howtos or download for Slack-compatible. many varieties

or maybe you want to try zipslack (around 40 MB download) as a starting point

remove anything you dont need,
move it to real linux partition,
install X
install small windows manager like fluxbox
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aahh.......how beautiful.....

i have zipslack installed i love it!
i have xfree86 3.3.6 installed as that is the only thing i can get to run my laptp on.
Have you any advice on cutting the the distro down.

Read my HOWTO. I usually cut ZipSlack to about 20-42MB installed, before adding in other stuff.

Thanks for that, i am downloading the 31meg zip file to give a try.
Would i be able to run this from a USB key with the appropriate bootdisk?

Not sure about keyboard -perhaps. As I recall that package has pkgtools or at least gzip and tar but no kernel modules. Add appropriate kernel-modules pkg if you need them or get the 42MB version that already has them

Sorry i meant a USB memory device, not USB keyboard.
I have a 64 meg USB key and i was wanting to boot from that with the approriate bootdisk mcuh like zipslack is supposed to boot from a zipdisk.

i cant see why it isnt possible as i know some distros like Feather Linux can boot form a USB key, i just think it would be more customisable from a zipslack distro.
I just dont know how to do it!

Okay yeah, it can see the USB stick, since it uses the ZipSlack kernel. However USB support is a module so you can't boot with that kernel. You can with a RUNT Linux bootdisk, though.
Just unzip amigo to the FAT on the USB. This WILL trash your USB stick fairly soon, though, as it 'wears out' the FLASH. I am working on a safe method to boot Amigo from USB that uses a special file system (JFFS2).
The new Amigo will be able to boot from FLOPPY, CDROM, IDE, SCSI, SATA, RAID or USB drives, using ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, jffs, jffs2, umsdos, NTFS and FAT file systems.
Nice GTK+1.2-based ROX-Filer desktop, with Opera, siag office, ghostview, xpaint and lots of other goodies. Dual-boot install with winXP or W2K with just a few mouse clicks and no partitioning.

Thanks again for a prompt reply
Have you got a discussion board or a newsletter for your distro?

Actually, I'm getting space here on LQ. Just need to work out details.