Argh, SystemRescueCD ditched their Gentoo base for Arch linux and regressed on some things I really liked in the process, like the FAT32-based USB install and the default zsh with a nice config :(
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Now it's using the archiso stuff, which is nice in that you can just dd it to a USB drive, but it's not FAT32 any more so it's not writable and you can't resize it. For a rescue system I like being able to use the rest of my 32GB USB drive for data.
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It also seems to have ballooned in size, from ~580MB to ~910MB. Wonder what the bloat is.
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You can have a backing store for customizations... but you need to change the bootloader config... but it's an ISO so you can't... and the alternate FAT32 installation method is UEFI-only... something wasn't well thought out here. http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/manual/Creating_a_backing_store/ …
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Arch has neve really been kind to your diskspace. The base group contains a lot of things you might not need, and we don't split out documentation and headers. A bit unsure what Gentoo does there.
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Docs are optional in Gentoo, but headers aren't. The system set doesn't have too much junk, though. The Gentoo stage3 is ~250MB compressed (with multilib, i.e. 64+32 bit) or ~210MB 64-bit only. That's your base system rootfs.
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