[CLUE-Tech] Linux on i386

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier jbrockmeier at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 25 08:02:50 MST 2002


On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, ian wrote:

> I don't believe Linux (any version) is supported on the 386sx chip.  I thought
> it had to be a full blown 386 or better?

I can't say I've ever tried, but I assumed that the option for
Math Co-Processor support was for chips like the 386sx. (You can
add support for CPUs without a math co-processor by recompiling
the kernel. I hope that someone has pre-built kernels for that
kind of thing...)

Zonker
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