5.3 on Intel 386 ?

Rob spamrefuse at yahoo.com
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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