[Wine] Running nothing but WINE on a Small Linux distro

[harani]

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