Rob wrote:
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...".

The GENERIC kernel that is shipped with FreeBSD will not boot on an 80386 processor, period.


Can I induce an FPU into my system by customizing my kernel?

You'll need an FPU and a custom kernel that is compiled with the CPU_I386 option.

Scott
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