I don't know enough about Linux to give any advise there. I'd go with Server 2003 if you have it - its XP like UI wise and it just makes more sense to go with the latest and greatest.
As to the disks, that server should have integrated Raid0/1 so I would mirror the disks so you have some redundancy.
A 10Gb NTFS Primary OS/Application partition should do nicely and there are two options for the rest...
1. You could install all your apps on the primary partition.
2. Create an application partition to install the apps on.
I'd personally go with option 1 because a 10Gb primary partition is plenty for most servers to install OS and apps together and the advantages are pretty small (if any), in a Wintel environment.
...and the rest obviously for data - you could split this up into various partitions depending on function or just leave as one humongous partition (and use folders/share to split up the function).
The built in Raid0/1 controllers on pizza box servers are not terribly fast - but this should not matter or be noticable for your needs.
I don't know enough about Linux to give any advise there. I'd go with Server 2003 if you have it - its XP like UI wise and it just makes more sense to go with the latest and greatest.
As to the disks, that server should have integrated Raid0/1 so I would mirror the disks so you have some redundancy.
A 10Gb NTFS Primary OS/Application partition should do nicely and there are two options for the rest...
1. You could install all your apps on the primary partition.
2. Create an application partition to install the apps on.
I'd personally go with option 1 because a 10Gb primary partition is plenty for most servers to install OS and apps together and the advantages are pretty small (if any), in a Wintel environment.
...and the rest obviously for data - you could split this up into various partitions depending on function or just leave as one humongous partition (and use folders/share to split up the function).
The built in Raid0/1 controllers on pizza box servers are not terribly fast - but this should not matter or be noticable for your needs.
Have fun!