Trick is I've tried a full distro running virtualbox with another system inside running scratch with everything installed...it was too much for the process...the process took...the live distro booted...everything was there..including virtualbox ...but Scratch and all the fremantle goodies was too much data for the process.
Scratch ..even by itself.... installed on lubuntu 32bit is still huge for the process. Most distro install iso's aren't over 8gb ..Scratch alone is about that big...it's alot to try to beat into a smaller space. There is always cloning...that is a solution...but which is a last solution...
lmde2betsy is great since it is pretty close to my desire of utilizing the new jessie..in a rolling release format in live iso distro format. and it works fine with smaller tools ..like qtsdk. same with antiX15 beta.(jessie as well)..the running distro to live iso with qt sdk works fine...which is fantastic...I am just waiting for antiX15 to be out of beta and then I see a point of continuing there. Same goes for Bodhi..I did get everthing working properly ...but Bodhi is going through some changes and I want to wait for them to finish and I'll pick up from there. So just for the moment right now.. I'm working with lmde2betsy...