Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-26 Thread 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

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-26 Thread 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

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Rob
Scott Long wrote: 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

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Scott Long
Rob wrote: Scott Long wrote: 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

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Andreas Braukmann
--On Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 17:28 Uhr +0900 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll need an FPU and a custom kernel that is compiled with the CPU_I386 option. I'm not an expert here, but I found this: 80386SX = 386 w/o FPU 80386DX = 386 w/ FPU plain wrong. 80386SX = 386 with 16

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Szymanski
Note that you will need a hardware FPU (i387 math co-pro). FreeBSD 4.x supports math emulation, so you don't need a hardware FPU there, but apparently that support has been removed in FreeBSD 5.x. Out of curiosity, what happened to this code? Was there some incompatibility, did it have the

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Nottebrock
Scott Long wrote: Rob wrote: 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) Btw: The at least 8 megs of RAM to install and 7 megs to run needs some rather big

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Scott Long
Brian Szymanski wrote: Note that you will need a hardware FPU (i387 math co-pro). FreeBSD 4.x supports math emulation, so you don't need a hardware FPU there, but apparently theffort to phase 80386 support out of the OS. It's been nearly 20at support has been removed in FreeBSD 5.x. Out of

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Scott Long
Michael Nottebrock wrote: Scott Long wrote: Rob wrote: 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) Btw: The at least 8 megs of RAM to install and 7 megs to run needs

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Scott Long wrote: running. 6.0 is not going to have any 80386 support at all, so consider this another sign to either upgrade your hardware or consider an older FreeBSD release (2.2.x ?) for your needs. Of course NetBSD still supports the 80386, so it might be an interesting option if the OP

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-24 Thread Wilko Bulte
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

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-24 Thread Rob
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

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-24 Thread Scott Long
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

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-24 Thread Scott Long
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