Damn Small Linux with XAMPP Linux to create a webserver on a P4 machine or Mele A2000

Damn Small Linux with XAMPP Linux to create a webserver on a P4 machine or
Mele A2000

A couple of days I'am busy to figure out to create a powerful light weight
server that can be used as webserver to serve some simple sites that using
PHP and mod-rewrite.
The P4-box (actually a laptop, dell latitude c640) i'm using came with
windows XP Prof. The problem is that windows consumes more memory and has
some TCP/IP stack problems (it is limited) because it can only serve up to
10 (and 40 with a hack) connections a time.
Before this have also bought a Mele A2000 ARM device (china thingy) that
comes with Android 4.0, a nice little box that is quiet and is power
friendly, just 5 watts. On this device I also tried several things but
doens't get ARM linux on it and all software solutions on Android uses
Lighttpd which does not support mod rewrite like Apache.
So i start searching the net for a linux distro for the P4-box and found
many, to figure out what is the best, it is very difficult for me because
of my Windows background (don't want a headless system). Tried several
ones and then I found Damn Small Linux (or DSL), looks great and works
okay on a very small footprint. Exactly what i'm looking for.
Then I search on DSL+Apache+PHP+mySQL and found the XAMPP Linux version (I
use also XAMPP on Windows to test websites, and found a blog that XAMPP
must be working on DSL). I found only information how to do it but there
is no iso or disk image around with these two worlds combined (at least i
didn't find it).
I tried to setup a diskimage (2GB) with use of VMWare, that is working
great. The idea is to first try it in VMWare and after that convert the
disk to a physical disc without damaging systems or hardware. I have used
the DSL install to setup a debian installation (the "install to harddrive"
option in the tools menu. Reboot and works okay.
After this i downloaded XAMPP Linux
(http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html) and follow the
instructions on this page. Installed it as superuser but get errors at the
install, one about SQL (something with syntax error in a command-line
utility) and one error the end (something I didn't understand) but install
proceeds and completes.
Then I tried to run 'lampp' or 'xampp' and the only thing I see is
floating point exceptions (see image) and doesn't look ok.

In short, my questions are:
Is there a DSL+XAMPP image around that I can use (can make my life much
easier ;-))
If not, what i'm doing wrong (is it really possible or is there something
wrong with the latest version of both?)
Is there a lightweight distro with XAMPP installed or
PHP+Apache+mod_rewrite+mySQL available? ARM or x86?
Or is it better to take my hands of this and try to figure out to hack
windows stack to get more connections
Or do you have other suggestions?