Screenshot from emulator showing Slackware 2.3 splash screen loaded from “bare” boot floppy

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   FozzTexx (fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 10:44:08 JST FozzTexx

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   Thanks to @nina_kali_nina I've switched to using PCem instead of qemu since it does a better job replicating the experience I get on the T5200. I've been going through old and older distros trying to find one that has a kernel that boots on the emulated 386DX. So far it seems that no distro with a 2.x kernel will work. Newest so far is Slackware 2.3 with a 1.2.8 kernel. Bumping the RAM up to 32MB doesn't get 2.x kernels working either. Very strange.

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