Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ?

[John Baldwin]

On 14-Apr-2003 Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Erik Trulsson wrote:
>> My patch will not break anything.
>> John Baldwin has already committed my patch to the 4-stable branch.
>> His commit message (quoted below) explains what the problem was and why
>> my patch is not really the proper fix but will work.
> 
> Thanks, good to know its fixed for 4.X.     
> ( Any comment on 5 BTW ? )   

5 doesn't have this problem but for different reasons.  In 5.x, you
have to build a custom kernel to get 386 support.  5.x does not support
80386 machines out of the box.  Installing a 5.x release on a 80386
is not too difficult if you have 5.x installed on an existing machine.
You just need to build a 80386 kernel and replace the kernel.gz on kern.flp.

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