Hi folks-
I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm mostly doing it as a
learning exercise (or perhaps because I'm a masochist), but the machine may
be used as a firewall at some point. I have the OS installed with a custom
kernel, and things are actually going quite well.
There
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: 5.1 on a 386
Hi folks-
I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm mostly doing it as a
learning exercise (or perhaps because I'm a masochist), but the machine
may
be used as a firewall at some point. I have the OS
not powerful enough to be worthwhile, but it
doesn't say specifically why.
Tom Veldhouse
- Original Message -
From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: 5.1 on a 386
Hi folks-
I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
I could be wrong, but I thought that they finally gave up on 386 support and
now the base minimum is 486. It could very well be that you can't compile
the system for a 386 without significant modification.
No, it's just that a 386 isn't supported in the base
wonder how much.
Tom Veldhouse
- Original Message -
From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: 5.1 on a 386
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
I could
On Thursday 12 June 2003 13:58, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If this is the case, then the hardware notes need updated, I quote:
All Intel processors beginning with the 80386 are supported, including
the 80386, ...
... and ...
On 12 Jun 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
No, the 386SX is a problem because it has no floating point registers
(or any other floating point support, for that matter). The 386DX
(with the floating point support onboard) is supported just fine, as I
understand it.
No. That's the diference
Fernando Gleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 12 Jun 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
No, the 386SX is a problem because it has no floating point registers
(or any other floating point support, for that matter). The 386DX
(with the floating point support onboard) is supported just fine, as
