RE: [SLUG] extracting kernel version from kernel image??

["Visser, Martin (SNO)" <Martin.Visser@nospam.compaq.com>]

Just did a "less /boot/vmlinux" and a few pages in I see the plain text
description you might normally see when you boot or type "uname -a"


Martin Visser
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaun Cloherty [mailto:s.cloherty@nospam.gsbme.unsw.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2000 11:41
> To: Sydney Linux Users Group
> Subject: [SLUG] extracting kernel version from kernel image??
> 
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to extract the kernel 
> version from a kernel image?? Other than the obvious method - 
> booting the thing?? Maybe an rdev type command??
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Shaun
> 
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> Shaun Cloherty
> Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
> University of New South Wales
> 
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