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 -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
