Ltning

@ltning@weirdr.net

He/him. This is one of my alter egos in the retro world. Read about this instance on front page. My goal is to be able to post here from a 286* running DOS. Might be a while..

and enthusiast with a craving for retro (mostly PC) hardware. Four kids and a wonderful patchwork family.

*Speaking of 286es: http://floppy.museum/

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

I had to build my own kernel since the default kernel simply needs too much RAM. But once USB and a couple of other niceties were removed, it ran fine with the binaries from the i386 release.

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matthew green »
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@ltning @dch i wonder if the LEGACY kernel would suffice for this system. good job!

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

Nah, it's the same size (roughly) as the regular kernel, the main difference is it allows ISA/VLB VGA for the console driver, afaik.

CC: @dch@bsd.network

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matthew green »
@mrgtwentythree@mastodon.sdf.org

@ltning @dch oh right.. i have some changes i never got around to testing that make it much smaller.

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