[jamesmd]

The board already has spi flash but it’s only 8 or 16mb. Enough for buildroot or maybe openwrt but Debian ain’t going to fit in there.

[FlyMoreRockets]

Not Debian, but there are lots of Linux distros pared down to fit on a single floppy disk. They will run just fine within that amount of RAM.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161109230651/https://bengross....

[dgfitz]

Check these out:

http://tinycorelinux.net/

https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page