Polytropon writes:
> > If you do 'mix-and-match' where different parts of your system
> > come from different versions of FreeBSD you will have to keep
> > track of this yourself.
>
> Such differences can occur if you
> 1st - make update
> 2nd - build and install world and kernel
Just an addition:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:54:02 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> No, there is no such information. The version stored in the kernel applies
> to both kernel and userland.
This is correct for the sources which usually are updated both
(running "make update" in /usr/src).
> If you d
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:12:26PM -0500, Ian Bonnycastle wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone,
>
> I'm asking this question here because I honestly don't know where to turn to
> otherwise. I've looked through forums, Google search results and the FreeBSD
> handbook without a specific answer. I unders
Hello,
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ian Bonnycastle wrote:
> If I have a
> particular FreeBSD system, and know its a modified kernel, how can I tell
> what base was originally on it?
Actually, why would you want to know this and how do you define base?
I have a laptop on which I installed yea
Ian,
You can do a: "less /var/run/dmesg.boot" and near the beginning of the
output it displays your system build:
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 #3: Wed Jul 16 14:51:34 CDT 2008
ja...@example.foo.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BSNI
Good afternoon everyone,
I'm asking this question here because I honestly don't know where to turn to
otherwise. I've looked through forums, Google search results and the FreeBSD
handbook without a specific answer. I understand the concept that FreeBSD is
actually an OS, which is a combination of
