From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 26 13:28:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A868716A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:28:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cyclades.de (mail.cyclades.de [62.225.173.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07C143D45 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:28:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mh@kernel32.de) Received: from [192.168.10.148] (helo=[192.168.10.148]) by www.cyclades.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CXg8v-00088Z-00; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:28:09 +0100 Message-ID: <41A72F0F.90109@kernel32.de> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:26:39 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040928) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob References: <41A58384.30603@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <41A58384.30603@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:28:14 -0000 Hej there, 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? the very same what is written down. i386 class architecture requieres to have at least a (80)486 CPU. > Should I install on 486 or higher, build a custom kernel and then > physically put the very same disk in a 386 PC? > I believe you are confused by i386 and 486 ... i386 is just the architecture, often called x86 too. 486 is the processor class itself. So: i386 != 386 hth, Marian