Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 02:21:40 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: listac@nebelschwaden.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Find out OS version and plattform? Message-ID: <68061D36-1258-482F-9C10-7888F9DEC9CF@mail.sermon-archive.info> In-Reply-To: <20200612101500.f455a884199613961283ed48@sohara.org> References: <16b61b7a-a313-883a-067a-b424b488b2de@nebelschwaden.de> <20200612101500.f455a884199613961283ed48@sohara.org>
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> On 12 June 2020, at 02:15, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:03:22 +0200 > Ede Wolf <listac@nebelschwaden.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to find out which version of FreeBSD was installed - and >> for what architecture, simply by mounting the disk? > > If you mount it on FreeBSD then you can do something like this > (taken from man freebsd-version). > > mount -rt ufs /dev/ada0p2 /mnt > env ROOT=/mnt /mnt/bin/freebsd-version -ku > > You could inspect the sources of freebsd-version to find out how > this is done. > >> I am not talking about uname, where you have to be inside the os, but if >> you simply mount the root partition to another computer, where to look >> for these information? > > The kernel version is pulled from the kernel, I'm not sure where > the userland version is stored. Do a more /bin/freebsd-version Right at the end of the initial shell comments is: # $FreeBSD: releng/12.1/bin/freebsd-version/freebsd-version.sh.in 325800 2017-11-14 10:15:17Z des $ set -e USERLAND_VERSION="12.1-RELEASE-p3"
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