From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 18:59:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D73716A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:59:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D9543D46 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:59:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@trini0.org) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (trini0.org[65.34.205.195]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20041031185924011002st6qe>; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:59:28 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (gladiator.trini0.org [192.168.0.3]) by hivemind.trini0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F4A196; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:59:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41853611.9030307@trini0.org> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:59:29 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041015) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jason References: <418510B8.8060305@trini0.org> <41852230.6080104@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <41852230.6080104@ec.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsdquestions Subject: Re: Determining original FBSD version X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:59:29 -0000 jason wrote: > Gerard Samuel wrote: > >> I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10 >> via a fresh install. >> The thought came to me as to what was the original version of >> FreeBSD did I install on those boxes. >> Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world. >> If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know. >> If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought... >> >> Thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > I think all you can do is know what version you have now(uname -a). > Other thatn that search for the oldest file on your computer. That gave me an idea. I looked at the date of kernel.GENERIC, and a few other files in /etc. They have a date of April 21 2001. All I have to do to find out the exact version, is to boot the GENERIC kernel. I dont have a keyboard/monitor hooked up to it right now, but I'll check it out, before I destroy it when I install 5.3.