> Will the i386 port of netbsd run on a 386 based laptop?  This might be a
> silly question, but I think that I recall linux being i386 based, yet it
> doesn't actually run on a 386 or at one time it didn't.  Thanks.

I used netbsd for quite a while on an i386-based laptop (before I
retired it in favor of a faster machine).

Probably the biggest obstacle is memory -- if it has enough memory, it
should work; if it doesn't, it's going to hurt.

					- Bill