On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 08:37:01AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-05-23 14:36, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > > > I have been using Debian for the last 20+ years. I don't like systemd > > and that has kept me on Stretch, where I can still use SysV as init. I > > have tried several times to upgrade to Buster without SysV, but have > > had no luck. So here I am at Devuan. > > You probably already know this, but just in case: > > You can do a minimal buster install. That will give you systemd but it > will be quite easy to replace it with sysvinit before installing any > more packages. It is easier than it was in jessie and stretch in fact. > > Yes, this would mean you need to reinstall all packages, but even that > is no big deal with dpkg --{get,set}-selections. > > This is what I have done - I decided that devuan stable was too far > behind with package versions for a desktop system.
Or try installing beowulf. That is, I believe, the devuan release corresponding to buster. -- hendrik > > -- > Ian > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng