Re: Determining original FBSD version
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Determining original FBSD version
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 -- Jeremy Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Determining original FBSD version
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 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. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Determining original FBSD version
- Original Message - From: "Gerard Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "freebsdquestions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:20 PM Subject: Determining original FBSD version 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 believe you're looking for "uname -a". "man uname" for more info. Eihab E. Ibrahim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Determining original FBSD version
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 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. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Determining original FBSD version
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 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. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Determining original FBSD version
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 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
