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Can an IBM PC Portable 5155 run something Linux-like? In this episode, we go back to Linux-8086, better known today as ELKS, and see what it takes to bring a trimmed-down UNIX-like system to an 8088 machine with just 512 K of RAM. Along the way, I install an NE2000-compatible Ethernet card, run into the infamous slot 8 trap, remove a 5161 expansion warning, add XT-IDE Compact Flash storage, copy a MINIX hard disk image using dd, and configure ELKS networking. The result is a tiny 16-bit Linux environment with TCP/IP, telnet, FTP, and even a simple HTTP server running on a an original IBM PC Portable from 1984! In this episode: 00:00 Intro 00:40 ELKS What!? - The Embebbable Linux Kernel Subset Explained 03:32 Is The Open Source ISA 8-bit Card ELKS-compatible? 05:25 IBM Post Error 1801 Root Cause, And How To Fix it 06:08 Hands-on With ELKS On The IBM PC Portable 06:51 Adding XT-CF/XT-IDE Mass Storage To The IBM PC Portable 08:04 How To Install ELKS Onto XT-CF/XT-IDE 11:28 How To Configure Networking On ELKS 13:23 ELKS Networking Demos 15:05 Conclusion 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Ernesto Leonardo Bertola Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Aaron Aluatis Balint Szikszay Brian Repinski CaffeinePizza Cecil Cinemint Clank CompuDroid Diego Valle GayManSam GrayT! Ian Cobb ihartmacz Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal Lord Pingvin Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety Mia Farkas Mlok Karel MS-DOS Manfred nadrazhul PPCEmulator Roy Edmund Antaw SoftMASCII Steven Glogger Thomas Ganter Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2026 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://ag.blahblah.studio | https://ag.blahblah.studio/ 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: Official ELKS project https://github.com/ghaerr/elks https://github.com/ghaerr/elks?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/releases https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/blob/master/BUILD.md https://sourceforge.net/projects/elks/ ELKS documentation and installation https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/wiki https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/wiki#Installation https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/wiki/Installing-HD-image-on-physical-media https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ghaerr/elks/master/Documentation/text/networking.txt ELKS networking and NE2000-related discussions https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/discussions/2185 https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/discussions/2036 https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/issues/2441 https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/discussions/1636 https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/issues/697 https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-8086/msg00734.html IBM PC, slot 8, and expansion hardware https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5160/misc/5160_slot_8.htm https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/21352/IBM-5161/ Historical and secondary ELKS context https://www.theregister.com/software/2023/10/06/elks-and-fuzix-linux-and-unix-writ-very-very-small/310843 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset https://kalogirou.net/ Background references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_unit