On Sun, Sep 06, 2026 at 08:48:21PM -0700, gabriel oliveira wrote: > Hello Debian team, > I have two technical questions regarding the official support for > SysVinit within the Debian project: > > * Post-installation change: Is there an official and supported > procedure to replace systemd with sysvinit (via sysvinit-core) on an > existing Debian installation while maintaining system stability? > * Direct installation: Is there an official way to perform a clean > installation of Debian using sysvinit as the default init system right > from the first boot, without relying on derivative distributions (such > as Devuan)? > > Thank you in advance for your guidance >
Hi Gabriel, https://wiki.debian.org/Init?pow_referer=#Changing_the_init_system_-_at_installation_time gives the Wiki instructions for how to do this. I haven't yet tried this but it reads correctly and should work. There may be some things that break - do pay attention to the order of doing things. All the very best, as ever, Andrew Cater ([email protected])
