Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:40:48 -0500 From: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> To: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> Cc: freebsdquestions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining original FBSD version Message-ID: <41858610.5040509@trini0.org> In-Reply-To: <1099253771.18712.2.camel@ocean-deep.gldis.ca> References: <418510B8.8060305@trini0.org> <41852230.6080104@ec.rr.com> <41853611.9030307@trini0.org> <1099253771.18712.2.camel@ocean-deep.gldis.ca>
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Jeremy Faulkner wrote: >On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:59, 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>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. >> >> > >strings kernel.GENERIC | grep RELEASE > > Excellent... hivemind# strings kernel.GENERIC | grep RELEASE BUS_RELEASE_RESOURCE RELEASE ELEMENT(10) RELEASE(10 RELEASE ELEMENT(06) RELEASE(06) @(#)FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 4.3-RELEASE
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