Linux successfully booted to a shell on my Toshiba T5200, with its iconic orange gas plasma screen glowing brightly, despite the 4MB RAM challenge.

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   FozzTexx (fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 03:44:01 JST FozzTexx

   New #Insentricity post: Getting #Linux to boot on a Toshiba T5200, a 386 luggable with only 4MB of RAM. Linux doesn’t love being this RAM-starved, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. The biggest challenge? Compatibility: LOADLIN’s supposed bzImage support and getting Linux to work with my impossibly large (for the period) hard drive.

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