Hi! Following the instructions at https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/chimaera/bullseye-to-chimaera
I've tried it on two VirtualBox VMs (one two different Debian host boxes - a Dell desktop and a Dell laptop). Both VMs were minimal Debian installs. I commented out all the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and added the following as the only lines in the file: deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main #deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main Then I ran # apt-get update --allow-insecure-repositories which generated a dozen or so warnings/errors, which I assume is normal for the process, so I ignored them. Then I ran # apt-get install devuan-keyring --allow-unauthenticated which generated a warning or two in the process. But the process appeared to complete properly. Then I did # apt-get update which installed a few things, and appeared to complete properly. Then I did # apt-get upgrade which insisted I type in the phrase, "Yes, do as I say!". This generated warnings/errors about too many errors processing systemd. The next step, # apt-get install eudev installed "openntpd" and then generated a warning that there is no init system and policy-rc.d missing. The next step, the command to "reboot", resulted with "-bash: reboot: command not found". Furthermore, the "shutdown" command can not be found. The only way I could find to reboot was to do a VM reset. On reboot, there were messages about recovering the journal and clearing orphaned inodes, then: run-init: can't execute '/sbin/init': No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. run-init: can't execute (/sbin/init, /etc/init/, /bin/init): No such file or directory /bin/sh: 0: can't access tty; job control turned off The next step # apt-get dist-upgrade failed, partly because the file system is mounted read-only. Although I can remount it as read-write, whatever is broken with the system is broken, and the rest of these instructions aren't going to work. You just run into the next problem (non-working network). This, too, can be fixed, but then you run into another problem. Etc. TL;DR - The conversion instructions don't work with Debian Bullseye 11.1, at least not on minimal Debian VMs using VirtualBox on Debian, for me. I can just wipe these two VMs and start from scratch, no problem. But thought whoever wrote that conversion page might need to know my experience. -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
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