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Re:The Linux Distributions of 1992 by krylon on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:18AM (#28574795)
Ah, that brings back memories.

Compiling your own kernel was kind of a rite of passage back in the day. Now I cannot remember when I last did that. Must have been 14 years or so, when I was still using Gentoo.

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Re:The Linux Distributions of 1992 by anthk on Saturday September 18, 2021 @07:29AM (#28575327)
I did that a few years ago for a semi-bricked WM8850 netbook which I can't reflash with Uberoid, a custom Android for these ARM machines. So I set up a VFAT partition with the kernel, a boot image file, and maybe I'll add some Void Linux root filesystem on an ext3 partition tomorrow. It's worse because booting from an SD card is not very realiable, but it's better than nothing.
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