Am Freitag, 16. März 2018 schrieb William Morder:
[...] Will this work for an i386 machine, as well? I did try installing Devuan, but without success (as it seems the process used by their installation disc wants to overwrite my home folder); I also gave exegnulinux, but that also was unsatisfactory.
If your home folder lives on the same partition as /, then you'll have some work to do :-)
My current system is Debian Jessie, and runs pretty much like I want, except for some minor bugs. My biggest complaint is systemd, and I really want to go back to using sysvinit.
Also: I wonder if it is possible to switch to Devuan without doing a complete reinstallation? i.e., after changing over to sysvinit, can I enable Devuan repositories (and disable Debian), then do something like sudo apt-get dist-upgrade or whatever?
Bill
You can move from debian jessie to devuan jessie without problems, just follow the guide https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/stable-jessie-announce-052517 section "Upgrade". When you do the upgrade, please do it on a console, not on a X11 terminal.
Nik