wine users - Oct 2009 - Running nothing but WINE on a Small Linux distro

I want to build a lightwieght system that does noting but run WINE which in turn
will run a single Windows application

Ideally I want to get it small enough to fit onto a 512MB solid state hard
drive. (if this is unrealistic I can change that but i have a 512MB drive to
hand)

I tried various small distros incluing Slax Kill Bill edition which worked in
live boot mode but I couldn't get installed to my hard drive, and Damn small
Linux which had problems recognising  my network hardware. I finally settled on
Ubuntu.
WINE and the windows app worked fine on a full installation but it was huge. I
don't need or want a full desktop as this will be a single purpose machine.
I couldn't pare enough packages off the installation to make it as small as
i wanted so I'm now trying a command line only installation of Ubuntu. I
figured when i installed WINE on top of that it would install it's
dependancies (including a graphic window manager ?) and i could see if the
result was small enough for my purposes. But when i run it,  it complains about
not having an Xserver running.

I'm a bit of a linux newbie when it comes to working in the CLI so would be
grateful if anyone could give me any pointers on where to go from here

cheers

There are more tiny Linux distro's out there. The following three work quite
well:

- Tiny Core Linux (this one is intended exactly for this kind of customization,
and flash drive installation.)
- Puppy Linux
- SliTaZ

>There are more tiny Linux distro's out there. The following three work
quite well:
>
>- Tiny Core Linux (this one is intended exactly for this kind of
customization, and flash drive installation.)
>- Puppy Linux
>- SliTaZ
Ubuntu has Lubuntu.

What i've found with some of the really tiny linux distros is they are
compressed images that expand themsleves as they boot. They work great 
"out of the box" but i'm not entirely sure how to make
modifications to them or make added software "stick"

I've tried puppy and I've tried Tinycore but didn't find either
suitable ( i forget why exactly)

SLiTaZ is a new one on me as is Lubuntu. I'll give them both a go. starting
with Lubuntu as Ubuntu is the version of linux i'm most familiar with.


Thanks for you suggestions