On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:27:35PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:27:35 +0100 > From: Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/24.2.0 > > On 06/01/15 13:12, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 12:11:48 +0100, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > > > >> usually when the distribution changes, I update my system rather than > >> reinstall everything. But for the transition from wheezy to jessie, > >> I would like to know: > >> > >> -1- Is it possible to go from wheezy to jessie, keeping sysvinit. > > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#systemd-upgrade-default-init-system > > > > An alternative for you is to install sysvinit-core after updating but > > before upgrading. > > > > > > There's an awful lot of FUD spread on the internet (and, sadly, even on > this list), mostly engendered by bigotry against the systemd author(s). > > My advice would be to go with the minimum effort upgrade, as you would > have done in the past. I've been running Jessie in a KVM client for > several months now, with zero problems.
I agree with you regarding jessie, I installed it on a USB drive and it works fine with systend, but but what concerns me is the transition from sysvinit to systemd on wheezy. If I understand what I read on the web (in English ...) it may be that my machine will not boot if I do not do the job well. -- Gerard ___________________________________________ ******************************************* * Created with "mutt 1.5.21-6.2+deb7u2" * * under Debian Linux WHEEZY version 7.7 * * Registered Linux User #388243 * * https://Linuxcounter.net * ******************************************* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150106124810.GA9947@mauritiusGA
