Re: Determining original FBSD version

From: jason (jason_at_ec.rr.com)
Date: 11/01/04

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To: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org>

    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
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    >> 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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