Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:25:38 -0500 From: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> Cc: freebsdquestions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Determining original FBSD version Message-ID: <41857472.8060405@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <41853611.9030307@trini0.org> References: <418510B8.8060305@trini0.org> <41852230.6080104@ec.rr.com> <41853611.9030307@trini0.org>
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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.
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