5.3 on Intel 386 ?

[Scott Long]

Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yeah, the mfsroot requirement here along with the growing kernel size 
really makes it hard for the installer to work in even 16MB of RAM.  I
don't see this abating anytime soon unless we go to a bare kernel +
modules approach and ditch /stand from the mfsroot (and thereby ditch
floppies).  I'm just saying this matter of fact, not trying to stir a
debate.  Please enjoy your turkey dinner instead today and refrain from
flaming me over floppies vs. RAM =-)

Scott