See below. On 161003-14:16+0100, Dave Turner wrote: > I did a fresh install of minimal debian squeeze. > Then I did the dist-upgrade to debian wheezy. > Then I cleaned out all of the old squeeze code still hanging around > Then I did a wheezy update. > And then I followed the dev1fanboy instructions for the dist-upgrade > from wheezy to devuan jessie. > And it worked! Using lilo too. > > DaveT >
I only want to thank you for the report. I plan (busy elsewhere for likely a few more weeks, first, though) on installing Devuan, and I'll go for dev1fanboy's sans-dbus page, > On 02/10/16 17:28, Dave Turner wrote: > > I installed a very minimal debian squeeze. > > > > Did a dist-upgrade to a very minimal wheezy. > > > > And then followed the dev1fanboy instructions for the dist-upgrade > > from wheezy to devuan jessie. > > > > It all seemed to go so well until I rebooted. > > > > The usual messages whizzed past in a very large font, then the usual > > blank screen before it comes back with a nice small font, but, > > nothing! Just a blank screen. > > > > Is it possible my wheezy installation was a bit too minimal? > > > > Or maybe my /boot partition was bit too small? I set it at 256MB. > > > > All suggestions welcome. > > > > And as an FYI - dist-upgrade from squeeze to devuan-jessie fails. You > > have to go via wheezy. > > > > DaveT > > -- Miroslav Rovis Zagreb, Croatia http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr
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