5.3 on Intel 386 ?
Rob
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Wed Nov 24 23:21:50 PST 2004
Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:02:28PM +0900, Rob wrote..
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But
>> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html
>>says:
>>
>> 1.2 Hardware Requirements
>> FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install
>> and run (although FreeBSD can run on 386 processors with a custom
>> kernel)....
>>
>>What does this mean?
>
> One thing you need on the target system (IIRC..) is a FPU.
So?
The hardware requirements state "FreeBSD can run on 386 processors...".
Can I induce an FPU into my system by customizing my kernel?
Rob.
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