From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 22:24:46 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 DEAFA16A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:24:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408F743D4C for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 22:24:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.103] (cpe-065-184-172-100.ec.rr.com [65.184.172.100])i9VMOh4R008128; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:24:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41857472.8060405@ec.rr.com> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:25:38 -0500 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041025) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerard Samuel References: <418510B8.8060305@trini0.org> <41852230.6080104@ec.rr.com> <41853611.9030307@trini0.org> In-Reply-To: <41853611.9030307@trini0.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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 22:24:47 -0000 Gerard Samuel wrote: > 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. > > Good, but you need not boot it. You can check the release date for 4.6 and 4.4 to find which one it should. If you don't care about running a kernel out of sink with your world then by all means do it. Be sure to back up data first and I would recommend going into single user mode to help avoid a possible panic or other strange behavior.