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]>
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