On 02/21/2018 09:45 AM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with a fresh install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before Wheezy's support runs out on May 31st. I will try the default systemd installation and see how I like it.
Okay, but I suggest instead you keep your wheezy system and your wheezy sources and do a upgrade using package upgrade-system, it will clean your system and then add the stretch sources including backports and run apt update & apt-upgrade and then run upgrade-system until your system is upgraded and clean, careful that sysvinit is not removed cause that package is not in stretch. You can also use apt dist-upgrade and deborphan.
After the installation, I will want to build my system from my favorite window manager (fvwm). With sysvinit, I would set initdefault to runlevel 3 in /etc/inittab. In /etc/rc3.d, I would rename gdm3 so that I would boot into a terminal interface (command line) instead of Gnome. Then I would quickly install fvwm, call startx, and happily finish building. I know systemd doesn't have inittab. Will the default installation leave me with a terminal interface whenever I boot? If not, how will I accomplish that? I also thought I had read about some problem with window authentication in Stretch, but I can't find any such posts now.
I don't know of any current problems in stretch.
Thanks.
Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.12.0 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263
