From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 15:23:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A9165C for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:23:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@aboutsupport.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x229.google.com (mail-wi0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB248FC0C for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:23:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f169.google.com with SMTP id hq12so6313690wib.2 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:23:07 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=mPy1GwYSsJfohtPPACB2+sRU6EerI39CEZ8a1VXUc50=; b=M+SUpvnim/y0XaqduVlHuX+iTdCH6YqwoBe9gQPmQPZvcmWFwdOszevzcqgtqIigys OwpAPSU54K9090jLgtfS84vIhZATndgM15fY8P6G7ibD0a8KlQI7tAg7Tm8ZmFH3CH9w Lm2hx00eDgjbfAEUqxQ4bQodQxbx4ek7Eg6YR1nZ5u88/UQvHPHeHZPl5gAC7dICv9FO 1m1011dBPaEeWAq4jwC/ho41dlxBw8hcpHXmGV5ggAcFpzPuFbSKzFRDk9IjpVMuOkUT IGms1sGYkZvhlps3FLvFvEiwXRGGXpW0uDcdDtH3VcR6MCbTW2ZeQEl/HxBYxqR6YczH csjg== X-Received: by 10.194.119.33 with SMTP id kr1mr65286824wjb.4.1356967387132; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.30.106] ([95.87.236.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p2sm70237705wic.7.2012.12.31.07.23.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:23:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50E1ADD7.7060702@aboutsupport.com> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:23:03 +0200 From: "Zyumbilev, Peter" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore? References: <20121231121350.GA5026@banach> In-Reply-To: <20121231121350.GA5026@banach> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl9QTyChWEiqQZ5pawx0+oMkafikWtWWM5Aa2BthkRHiOFW/68OwcOSlAJpl3+j75j4CL4I X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:23:08 -0000 On 31/12/2012 14:13, Jose Garcia Juanino wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to > FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE. With upgrade source method, it is always needed to > do the "make installworld" step in single user mode. But it seems to > be that single user is not required with freebsd-update method, in the > second "freebsd-update install". Someone could explain the reason? Am I > misunderstanding something? Can I run the upgrade enterely by mean a ssh > connection in a safe way, or will I need a serial console? > > Best regards, and excuse my poor english. > Hi, Although in the books it says singe user, I always do source upgrade via ssh - so far(8 years) no problems :-) Peter