The work is over, time to install some Linux 2.4 on NEC PC-98 (maybe) PC-98 and Linux have more than a 10 year overlap.
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The work is over, time to install some Linux 2.4 on NEC PC-98 (maybe)
PC-98 and Linux have more than a 10 year overlap. The last PC-98 was made somewhere around 2003, the first Linux distro is from 1992, and yet, there were only two major Linux distributions that supported PC-98: Japanese-made Plamo and a flavour of Debian. It seems Debian for PC98 is mostly lost to the sands of time, but Plamo 2.x and 3.x are on archive.org - which is what I'm going to install.
I probably won't screenshot everything, it takes loooots of energy.
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The work is over, time to install some Linux 2.4 on NEC PC-98 (maybe)
PC-98 and Linux have more than a 10 year overlap. The last PC-98 was made somewhere around 2003, the first Linux distro is from 1992, and yet, there were only two major Linux distributions that supported PC-98: Japanese-made Plamo and a flavour of Debian. It seems Debian for PC98 is mostly lost to the sands of time, but Plamo 2.x and 3.x are on archive.org - which is what I'm going to install.
I probably won't screenshot everything, it takes loooots of energy.
🧵PC-98 doesn't support CD boot (only some rare models could), so the installation begins with creating two boot floppies: the boot one starts GRUB (and maybe has the kernel?), and the root one probably has initfs with the installer.
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