5.3 on Intel 386 ?

[Marian Hettwer]

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