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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:
>=20
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:03:22 +0200
> Ede Wolf <listac@nebelschwaden.de> wrote:
>=20
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> is there a way to find out which version of FreeBSD was installed - =
and=20
>> for what architecture, simply by  mounting the disk?
>=20
> 	If you mount it on FreeBSD then you can do something like this
> (taken from man freebsd-version).
>=20
> mount -rt ufs /dev/ada0p2 /mnt
> env ROOT=3D/mnt /mnt/bin/freebsd-version -ku
>=20
> 	You could inspect the sources of freebsd-version to find out how
> this is done.
>=20
>> I am not talking about uname, where you have to be inside the os, but =
if=20
>> you simply mount the root partition to another computer, where to =
look=20
>> for these information?
>=20
> 	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=3D"12.1-RELEASE-p3"







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