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.
https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/289/rekernel-linux-on-a-386-again
In May of 2024 I acquired a couple of Toshiba luggables, one of them being a T5200 . The T5200 is a 20Mhz 386DX with an orange gas plasma screen with VGA resolution. The internal hard drive is a Conner desktop 3.5” drive with an IDE interface. The RAM unfortunately is non-standard and uses proprietary Toshiba 40-pin simms, something that was used in only 2 or 3 models of Toshiba computers and impossible to find these days. Luckily mine came with two 1MB SIMMs, bumping the total RAM to...
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