[NTLUG:Discuss] Problems making ISO for slackware

[Linux]

I'm currently using redhat 9, it was my first shot at linux.  I liked 
it, but want to try some other distros, and I think I screwd up some 
things in general by not knowing where good places to install programs 
and such.  I'm looking at slackware, but am having issues making the ISO 
out of the files I downloaded.  Every time I use mkisofs, the ISO image 
comes out to be 900mbs up to 1.2 gig, which won't fit on 1 cd. (which 
according to the readme.txt, you can make it fit on 1 cd if you drop 
gnome or kde.)  This leads me to belive that I screwed up and downloaded 
the wrong file or I'm just not understanding something that a veteran 
linux user would see.

Here is what I did:

1) I went here 
http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/ (offical 
mirror off slackware.com) and downloaded the entire "slackware-current" 
folder.

2) I copied and pasted the steps for making the ISO from the readme.txt 
(in the isolinux directory), and it made the ISO, which was far too big 
to fit on a CD.  I then added some extra lines in the mkisofs command to 
try to make it small enough, but was still a few hundreded mb's too big.

mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware.iso \
-R -J -V "Slackware Install" \
-x ./bootdisks \
-x ./extra \
-x ./slackware/gnome \
-x ./pasture \
-x ./patches \
-x ./rootdisks \
-x ./source \
-x ./zipslack \
-x ./testing \
-hide-rr-moved \
-v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
-sort isolinux/iso.sort \
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
-A "Slackware Install CD" .


Did I download somes files I wasn't suppose to? (I assume so, but which 
ones?)  I want to use KDE this time around, I use gnome on my redhat distro.

Also, I remeber reading of a way to make your windows machine emulate a 
mnt point, so instead of burning the ISO to a CD, you can put it where 
the soon to be linux machine can find and install it with?  My windows 
box with my cd-rw came with some crappy burning software that I don't 
think will handle ISOs.  I'd rather not have to spend the money to buy 
NeoBurn or one like it if possible.  Does anyone have a guide to this (I 
can't seem to find it now, going through so many readmes trying to get 
this working)

Thanks,
-Kyle