NetBSD/i386 1.0

NetBSD/i386 1.0 was the third formal release of NetBSD/i386. It included support for many more devices and for better device autoconfiguration than did NetBSD 0.9, and the i386 was one of the ports for which shared libraries were supported. Also, the i386-specific portions of the kernel were made significantly more robust than they had been in NetBSD 0.9, and some of them were made quite a bit faster in the process.

Charles Hannum was the maintainer of NetBSD/i386 at the time of release 1.0, but Chris Demetriou built the release.

Supported Hardware

The minimal configuration for a NetBSD/i386 1.0 system requires 4M of RAM and about 40M of disk space. For a full installation (including source and X11), at least 8M of RAM and 200M of disk space are recommended.

Devices supported by NetBSD/i386 1.0 include:

Floppy controllers
MFM, EDSI, IDE and RLL hard disk controllers
SCSI host adapters:
- Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C and -CF
- Adaptec AHA-174x
- Adaptec AIC-6260- and AIC-6360-based boards, including the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter. Note that you cannot boot from these boards if they do not have a boot ROM, and many do not.
- Buslogic 54x [AHA-154x clones]
- Buslogic 445, 74x and 9xx
- NCR 53C810 PCI SCSI host adapter
- Ultrastor 14f, 34f and (possibly) 24f
MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA and HGC Display Adapters. Note that not all of the display adapters supported by NetBSD/i386 will work with X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more information.
Serial ports:
- 8250/16450-based ports
- 16550-based ports
- AST-style 4-port serial boards
- IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards
Parallel ports.
Network interfaces:
- AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100 and StarLAN Fiber
- 3COM 3c501
- 3COM 3c503
- 3COM 3c505
- 3COM 3c507
- 3COM 3c509 and 3c579
- Digital DEPCA
- BICC Isolan [NOT RECENTLY TESTED]
- SMC/WD 8003, 8013 and the SMC ``Elite16'' ISA boards
- SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC ``Elite16 Ultra'' ISA boards)
- Novell NE1000, NE2000
- Novell NE2100 [NOT RECENTLY TESTED]
Tape drives:
- Most SCSI tape drives
- QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-compatible) tape drives
CD-ROM drives:
- Mitsumi CD-ROM drives
- Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
Mice:
- ``Logitech''-style bus mice
- ``Microsoft''-style bus mice
- ``PS/2''-style mice
- Serial mice [No kernel support necessary]
Miscellaneous:
- SoundBlaster

Note that not all devices are supported by the installation floppies.

If you're interested in NetBSD/i386 you should use a more recent version.

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