lean webserver box - distro choice, and backup question

From: Jules (julesrichardsonuk_at_remove.this.yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 12/15/03

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    Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:50:58 +0000

    Hi all,

    I'm just after a lean linux box to stick outside of my firewall and allow
    transferral of odds and ends between colleagues. By lean, I mean to run on
    a P120 with 16MB of RAM and a 500MB disk.

    Services-wise I can probably live with just the webserver, but it needs to
    run a file upload script too. (Yes, I'd rather have an ftp server, but
    some of the people I deal with are not that knowledgable when it comes to
    computers, so web's easier)

    Any recommendations for a good distribution to try that won't take me
    weeks of fine-tuning but is also pretty lean straight out of the box (the
    former perhaps rules out Slackware, and the latter Redhat)??

    Other issue is backup in the event of someone hacking the machine and
    trashing it. I don't care about any data that's on it as that'll only be
    transient, but I would like to quickly be able to rebuild the system in
    the event of a problem. I was wondering about just using dd to make a
    block-by-block copy of the whole drive to somewhere safe, which I can spit
    back onto the machine's drive if needs be. Does that seem sensible?

    cheers

    Jules

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