Is it feasible to chroot into an i386 environment when booted to FreeBSD amd64 
for the purpose of building and installing ports for i386?

FreeBSD i386 would be installed to /compat/i386 directory or to a USB stick 
that could be mounted to this directory, or even a partition on a USB hard 
drive.

Reason for wanting to install to an external device would be the ability to run 
on an older, i386 computer with much less RAM and disk space than the new, 
amd64 computer.

Running on an i386 computer would of course require the i386 kernel.

I might model on what I see at http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine but would add 
buildkernel and installkernel.

Tom
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