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First post, by DosFreak

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https://bits.p1x.in/floppinux-an-embedded-lin … -single-floppy/
https://github.com/w84death/floppinux

I created an embedded Linux distribution from scratch. It fits on a single floppy diskette. At the time of writing it uses ~1MB of storage. This gives me ~400KB free space to use on any custom software.

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Reply 3 of 5, by darry

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Current 5.x kernel compiled for 486 target is nice, but isn't support for at least some of the early ISA stuff already gone from kernel at this point ?

Thank you for this, I will give it a shot on my P3 when I get the chance .

Reply 4 of 5, by ntalaec

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Interesting project, but I'm getting a kernel panic in real hardware and PCem with P200 MMX and 64 MB of RAM.

Does only work on QEMU?

Reply 5 of 5, by Jo22

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darry wrote on 2021-05-23, 18:59:

Current 5.x kernel compiled for 486 target is nice, but isn't support for at least some of the early ISA stuff already gone from kernel at this point ?

Thank you for this, I will give it a shot on my P3 when I get the chance .

Yes, I think kernal 2.x (2.4?) was the latest Linux kernal with full ISA support.
I'm speaking under correction, however.
I merely can vividly remember that kernal 2.6 introduced many issues with backwards compatibility..

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