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Linux from inside DOS: Have your cake and eat it, with BasicLinix on the Pocket 386
You want to have a well-confined Linux installation in which to play around, but without doing harm to your default MS-DOS/Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 installation, e.g. on the “modern vintage” mini-laptop Pocket 386 (as on mine, shown here, ere it perished), and it must not be a dual boot? Then BasicLinux might be just what you have been looking for: a minimized Linux distribution that can be extended using Slackware 4 packages and that runs from loop file* and that can be started with a DOS command — bending the machine to its will, turning it into another Renfield to the Dracula that Linux truly is, until you reboot…
* For those looking for a UMSDOS guide — that comes in a future video, this is not it yet.
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why not buy a $150..250 Chromebook,, you get a desktop browser with extensions
Android 13 && Linux ,, oh and 10 years of support
why struggle with an old machine?
On a famous e-commerce site, I saw they sell: Retro Pocket 386 for nearly 270 euros; what a crap! But in that case, I'm happy I will never buy it.
blast from the past. I remember several linux distros with the option to boot from dos/w9x and I used to run PeanutLinux loop version this way.
Thanks for continuing to try out these new things. I wonder if an earlier version of Minix can be installed on this? I keep meaning to read the Tanenbaum book.
So cool.
Nice work! How about ssh over a PPP connection using the serial port. Do you think it's possible?
Sir, did I see a "startx" option there? 🙂
jjjjooooo bro
I'm sure you can compile a custom kernel and run the propper thing with a bootloader and stuff.
BasicLinux it’s called you say?
Too bad it did broke
Wow, excelent. Similar with DOSLINUX