Alex wrote:
> It means that you can not install FreeBSD on a 386 unless you have a
> 486+ machine that can compile a new FreeBSD system and have a way to
> get that version to the 386.

Yes, this is true.  Several of us were annoyed by the change,
which appeared at the time to have been done solely to handle
the fact that the newly installed device /dev/random sucked
too much CPU time to work on a 386.

The /dev/random code has since improved to not suck so much
CPU time, but the 386 code was not reenabled.

The best answer out there is "the majority has spoken", with
the idea being that if you are deploying on 386 hardware, you
are an embedded systems vendor, and are willing to live with
the process effectively being a cross-compilation.

-- Terry

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