On 06/01/15 13:48, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > 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. > I've not heard that, except maybe in very old reports. I think the installer has now reached a stage of maturity to avoid such pit-falls, and will, presumably, mature more until the release. I'd then be inclined to wait for a month or two before upgrading, to allow it to gain even more maturity. I would expect all to go smoothly.
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