How the hell is a "really basic" Linux distro 3G in size? To me, a "really basic" Linux install, particularly one which is just capable of providing a prompt, should come in at less than 1/10th of that size: Kernel & modules, basic shared libraries, standard linux command line tools... what else?

For comparison, my ubuntu VM is under 1.5G, and that's not been a "really basic" install even when it was first created.

[EDIT] Thanks, it's the whole disk partition image, not the distro itself.