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From: Ian Clowes <clowes_ian@hotmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:13:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <431F5811.D56745B8@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4KeSf-2NT-15@gated-at.bofh.it



"Vernon A. Fort" wrote:
> 
> With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm
> -qi basesystem.  I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would
> like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured.  Any pointers?


Hi

Possibly a little empirical, but on things like the mod date on the root
lost+found directory and the first few lines of /var/log/emerge.log come
to mind.

IanC
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-09-07 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4KeSf-2NT-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-09-07 21:13 ` Ian Clowes [this message]
2005-09-07 20:36 [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date Vernon A. Fort
2005-09-07 22:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-08  1:04 ` Nick Rout
2005-09-08  2:35   ` Willie Wong
2005-09-08  5:18     ` Nick Rout
2005-09-08  5:32 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-09-08  7:28   ` Nick Rout
2005-09-08  8:02   ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-08 17:05     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-09-08 17:36       ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-08 17:56         ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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