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Freesco is listed on that section of the page, along with some others.
The only tiny distros I've used have been Basic, Mu, and Floppix - well, I more "booted" Floppix than "used it:, which is true of PicoBSD, as well. Can't say how they'd do for your purposes, but Basic is a pretty nifty all-around floppy distro that can be transferred to hard drive.
Distribution: CentOS 3.3-4, OpenBSD 3.3, Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu, Novell Open Enterprise Server
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Check out OpenNA. I bought thier book (It is impressive btw!) and it came with a copy of thier distro. It is based off of RH but stripped down to the bones and runs very smooth. Overall it is a great server distro: http://www.openna.com/products/os/os.php
Buy thier book! The knowledge you will learn is worth it.
I know you say you are a newbie, but if you really want to set up a decent server you are going to need to read stuff anyway. I suggest you give slackware a try, it can be made VERY small indeed. It even comes with ZipSlack which is a good candidate to suit your needs and comes in at under 100meg (to fit on a zip disk, or anywhere else...)
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