Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:09:52 +0000 From: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <1296162592.20060.41.camel@dt.vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <20110127203928.GE75822@guilt.hydra> References: <4D2F606D.6090407@gmail.com> <BF2F84C5-AB13-4FE1-AB43-AD965E21980E@mac.com> <20110113204525.GB3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <579FC70C-5B5B-43B4-9E71-D765887FAF6F@mac.com> <20110113210319.GD3646@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <1294955182.10908.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <2062F50F-5D14-496C-A97A-FC4CDB3FDD3F@mac.com> <1294955858.10908.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20110127203928.GE75822@guilt.hydra>
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On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > > > > You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a > > system upgrade if you want to find out the `true' answer as to when the > > box was first ... what? partitioned? newfs'd? clue me in here. > > > > What _is_ the definition of "built" ??? When the hardware pieces were > > coalesced into a single chassis? If that's the case, I'd be looking at > > model numbers of internal parts. > > I suspect that at this point you are just being pedantic, Correct. I get paid to be pedantic. It's a staple of my tenure-track position. > and that you > know what the question actually means Correct. Going back to the OP's e-mail, he indeed clarified that he was only interested in the install-date of FreeBSD. > ; you just want to dismiss the > question as immaterial. Incorrect and perceptually [unrightly] indignent. The above statements (which you've taken out of context) were not to the OP but a reply-thread between Chuck Swiger and myself. -- Devin
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