Previously, I left off the story with a working "bootloader" of some sort. It is a tiny Linux kernel, with an even tinier initramfs, packed on a Floppy disk. Once it loads it continues booting from the USB drive. But what should it boot from there?

Well, crafting this loader was fun and all, but it would be nice if I could just load up a proper distro from there, and not reinvent the wheel (or so I told to myself)....

Connecting to Cyberspace From a Pentium MMX (Part 1)

So there is this Guild Competition in the Technica Guild, of accessing Cyberspace on the Crappiest hardware. The current record holder, at the time of writing, is a Raspberry Pi 2B. When I saw that I got wondering instantly, could I do better?

I have some Allwinner F1C100s and F1C200s boards around with 32 and 64 MB RAM, and a single ARMv5 core at 533MHz,... but that's just not...