5.3 on Intel 386 ?

[Marian Hettwer]

top post:
forget it. It's Friday, and I'm not tired. I just oversaw that you asked 
how to get FreeBSD running on a 386 then...

sorry :)

Marian Hettwer wrote:
> 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
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