Find out OS version and plattform?

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:03:22 +0200
Ede Wolf <listac at nebelschwaden.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to find out which version of FreeBSD was installed - and 
> for what architecture, simply by  mounting the disk?

	If you mount it on FreeBSD then you can do something like this
(taken from man freebsd-version).

mount -rt ufs /dev/ada0p2 /mnt
env ROOT=/mnt /mnt/bin/freebsd-version -ku

	You could inspect the sources of freebsd-version to find out how
this is done.

> I am not talking about uname, where you have to be inside the os, but if 
> you simply mount the root partition to another computer, where to look 
> for these information?

	The kernel version is pulled from the kernel, I'm not sure where
the userland version is stored.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>