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Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386?
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On Wed Nov 28, 2001 at 02:29:01PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:24:14AM -0500, Dennis Mathiasen wrote:
> > Is it possible to install 4-STABLE on a 386DX with 8 Meg of memory?
> > The machine has no cd-rom. =20
>=20
> Possibly not.  I recall (anecdotally) that recent versions of
> FreeBSD dropped support for the native hard drive controllers on
> [34]86-based motherboards.

I think that *in -current*, support for the 386/486 has been dropped
from the GENERIC kernel.=20

Not sure about the IDE support thought. The switch from the WC to the
ATA driver took out some compatibility, IIRC.

A.

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