On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 09:33:29PM -0500, Chillfan wrote:
> It turns out the ASCII migration page is still correct, so it's available to 
> translate.
> 
> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/blob/master/migrate-to-ascii.md
> 
>  ​Thanks,
> 
>  chillfan
> 


Dear Chillfan,

I just discovered a quite serious glitch that I guess might already be
known: upgrading Debian stretch to ASCII following the tutorial at the
link above will not work properly, since stretch does not have a
/etc/network/interfaces file any more (that's now deprecated in
Debian).

This means that an upgrade on a remote server requires the admin to
create that file by hand first, and then reboot into sysvinit,
otherwise the server will be unreachable after reboot (and might
require a costly console intervention in some cases).

We must put this fact into evidence in the tutorial, and add all the
relevant warnings around. Actually, it would be better to have a
script that creates a skeleton for /etc/network/interfaces, and then
asks the admin to double-check it before a reboot.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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