On 22 May 2018 at 02:56, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp office@klepp.biz wrote:
Hi!
Am Dienstag, 22. Mai 2018 schrieb Robert Peters:
[...] Hello Nik, Thanks for the reply. For now, I have installed Debian 9 to an unused area of the laptop's SSD. In the migration instructions I followed most of the steps but stopped at the command "apt-get purge systemd systemd-shim". It offered in part to do the following:
The following packages will be REMOVED: caja* dbus-user-session* gvfs* gvfs-backends* gvfs-daemons* libpam-systemd* lightdm* mate-applets* mate-control-center* mate-desktop-environment* mate-desktop-environment-core* mate-panel* mate-polkit* mate-power-manager* mate-settings-daemon* network-manager* network-manager-gnome* policykit-1* synaptic* systemd* systemd-sysv* task-mate-desktop* udisks2* The following NEW packages will be installed: initscripts insserv startpar sysv-rc sysvinit-core
But I am reluctant to proceed, apprehensive of clobbering the system. What do you think?
- R
Just proceed. Keep in mind, "debian 9" matches "devuan ascii", so please adjust your sources accordingly.
MATE will be gone after the next reboot, so you'll most likely end at a real console. Do a "aptitude dist-upgrade" after the next reboot and install TDE. Use "apt-show-version" to figure out which packages are a leftover from debian and need to be replaced with devuan versions. If you run into problems with consolekit, just drop a line.
For reference, I've added my sources.list
Nik
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