I remember when "getting linux working on a laptop" was thought to be tricky.[1]
ELKS was a linux distribution for old small machines. It was supposed to run on an 8086, and use just 512 KB (not MB) for ram. (http://web.archive.org/web/19990117003949/http://www.uk.linu...)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset)
Wow, still sort of live. (http://elks.sourceforge.net/)
[1] Here's a 2003 FAQ which gives some nice details of the problems people faced then. (http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO.html)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T1100
It seems not to be in IA.
I remember when "getting linux working on a laptop" was thought to be tricky.[1]
ELKS was a linux distribution for old small machines. It was supposed to run on an 8086, and use just 512 KB (not MB) for ram. (http://web.archive.org/web/19990117003949/http://www.uk.linu...)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset)
Wow, still sort of live. (http://elks.sourceforge.net/)
[1] Here's a 2003 FAQ which gives some nice details of the problems people faced then. (http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO.html)