From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 1 00:15:13 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 A594716A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 00:15:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07A643D49 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 00:15:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA10ag65016173; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:36:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) From: Jeremy Faulkner To: Gerard Samuel In-Reply-To: <41853611.9030307@trini0.org> References: <418510B8.8060305@trini0.org> <41852230.6080104@ec.rr.com> <41853611.9030307@trini0.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-tZnk7lW9P2zeq/Mqx1CM" Message-Id: <1099253771.18712.2.camel@ocean-deep.gldis.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:17:04 +0000 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80rc4/561/Fri Oct 29 06:26:00 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on constans.gldis.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: jason 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: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:15:13 -0000 --=-tZnk7lW9P2zeq/Mqx1CM Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:59, Gerard Samuel wrote: > jason wrote: >=20 > > 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 > >> > > I think all you can do is know what version you have now(uname -a). =20 > > Other thatn that search for the oldest file on your computer.=20 >=20 > That gave me an idea. I looked at the date of kernel.GENERIC, and a few=20 > 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=20 > kernel. > I dont have a keyboard/monitor hooked up to it right now, but I'll check=20 > it out, > before I destroy it when I install 5.3. strings kernel.GENERIC | grep RELEASE --=20 Jeremy Faulkner --=-tZnk7lW9P2zeq/Mqx1CM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBhUgKfb0Lle2MIEIRAkQQAKC4KFc1YLllXItfdnzWQrv+s8WLGACg76AC LTmZe6sTRyACdFqvXcaKDXA= =rWIx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tZnk7lW9P2zeq/Mqx1CM--