5.3 on Intel 386 ?

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Thu Nov 25 13:45:57 PST 2004


Scott Long wrote:

> Rob wrote:
>>>>  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)....

Btw: The "at least 8 megs of RAM to install and 7 megs to run" needs some 
rather big annotations to be true and should probably be revised. The last 
release you could install from a CD-ROM with plain sysinstall on 8 megs of RAM 
was FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE.

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