Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore?

[Zyumbilev, Peter]

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