try doing the installation by hand
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:installation
using the standard slitaz rootfs but another distro to do the job

That seems kind of complicated. Could you explain a little more or is there another option?

Thanks.

It may seem complicated but one has to remember that it is normally the tool doing the work; you will be being that tool just once. All the commands are given there and you can execute them from a distro you are comfortable with.

To summarise them:
1: prep a target (i.e. your hard disk)
2: make the file-system available (i.e. the CDROM fs)
3: copy the boot files (vmlinuz etc.)
4: extract the rest of the file-system to your hard disk (unzip the compressed fs)
5: prep the boot files to use said hard disk (edit bootloader config).

That's both the "Install By Hand" and "GRUB Bootloader" sections. Yep, 5 steps!

Out of interest, how much RAM do you have? It'll have to be very low for the LowRAM flavour to fail!

I have 32 megs, as I posted in the title.

So I can do this while in my hard drive install of DSL?

Shouldn't the Slitaz lo-ram live CD be able to run?

Well I tried following the instructions, but DSL does not seem to have the LZMA command, so I am stuck. Any suggestions?

Yes, lo-ram is the choice. Try 3-in-1 flavor. It's magical. It detects the amount of RAM you have and takes the desired action: to act as core, or lo-ram or lo-ram CD.

I appreciate the help and ideas from everyone.

So it seems zcat, gzip or gunzip can work in place of lzma. Would someone be so kind as to tell me the proper command and switches for this line?

# lzma d rootfs.gz -so | cpio -id

Thanks and I hope to be up and running soon with your help!