Determining original FBSD version

[Gerard Samuel]

Jeremy Faulkner wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:59, Gerard Samuel wrote:
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>>jason wrote:
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>>>Gerard Samuel wrote:
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>>>>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...
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>>>>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. 
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>>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.
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>strings kernel.GENERIC | grep RELEASE
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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