Determining original FBSD version

jason jason at ec.rr.com
Sun Oct 31 14:24:47 PST 2004


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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