On Wednesday 23 May 2018 05:03:44 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2018 schrieb Robert Peters:
Vielen Dank, aber... After purging systemd and rebooting, I was unable to get to a command line - it asked me to choose a runlevel, etc... So instead, I installed Exegnu, which is based on Devuan and Trinity. Using a wired connection I got it more or less updated to stretch and am still working on wireless connectivity. Basically it works, so I continue to peck away at little things...
- R
Hi!
How did you manage to go from exelinux (devuan) to stretch (debian)?
Nik
I believe that running apt-get purge may be premature. I was going to say that earlier, but since I haven't actually tried this out yet, it seemed better to wait with suggestions. I think you want first to change your sources.list to Devuan repos, then install the relevant sysvinit components and run apt-get -f install and maybe apt-get dist-upgrade. Only then would I run apt-get purge of anything Debian or systemd. Let apt choose what to remove before purging anything.
I tried earlier versions of Exelinux or Exegnu, and found it to be rather messy - like they were still in early development - and the same with most other Debian or Devuan systems that come prepackaged with Trinity. But if you have got a running system using it, that's a start.
I'm curious to know what version you are running, just in case I should want to take a look when I try to migrate over to Devuan myself.
Bill
Bill