5.3 on Intel 386 ?
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 24 23:23:27 PST 2004
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?
> Should I install on 486 or higher,
Highly recommended
> build a custom kernel and then
> physically put the very same disk in a 386 PC?
You could try this if you really wanted, yes.
Scott
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