-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 04/11/15 07:21, dev1fan...@use.startmail.com wrote: > Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring > minimalism. > > There are a lot of people talking about minimalism in Devuan and > some may be wondering if they can upgrade to Devuan. The answer is > yes, you can upgrade to Devuan right now and expect it to work > with few if any problems in the stable branch - which is not yet > announced stable but is clearly a lot better than alpha quality as > you might have heard mentioned on devuan.org. I am currently > putting in a little research before writing a more full guide to > upgrading, installing and getting more minimalism out of Devuan. > Hopefully I will be starting a wiki for all this info and more to > go into in the near future, but for now I want to just put it out > there for people trying to upgrade their current system or get > more minimalism in their system. > > Let's get started. > > > 1) Upgrading Debian to Devuan Stable (aka Jessie 1.0) > > You can upgrade to Devuan Jessie 1.0 from either Debian Wheezy or > from Debian Jessie. For other branches you are on your own for > now, and I suggest avoiding upgrades to Devuan testing (ascii) for > now until after the official stable release. ...
Hello dev1fanboy, and everyone else. This is just an F.Y.I. I'd like to let you know that I've just carried out what so far appears to be a successful Debian -> Devuan conversion. You prudently advised that the upgrade/transformation/conversion should be from either Debian Wheezy or Jessie, and that was for very good reason. However, my Debian system was of the Stretch/Sid flavour: /etc/debian_version stretch/sid /proc/version Linux version 4.1.0-2-rt-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.9.3 (Debian 4.9.3-3) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.1.6-1 (2015-08-23) Alas, I am far too impatient, impetuous and imprudent to methodically downgrade my system to the appropriate level before I attempted such a foolish thing, so I proceeded regardless. I even went so far as to configure minimalism in the system as you suggested, and that almost went off without a hitch. I say almost, because in the process my nvidia graphics driver and kernel module were trashed. But reinstating those was in principle easy owing to the brilliant SGFXI script, however I did need to re-boot (sorry KatolaZ) into a non-real-time pre-emptive kernel (i.e. non -rt-) otherwise the the sgfxi script complained and barfed. I can provide more detail if you're curious, but for the minute, I just wanted to thank you for your exceptionally clear and prescriptive instructions and perhaps to say that, if one is as brave or foolish as I am, it is eminently possible to jump across to Devuan from Debian Stretch/Sid by following your guide. Cheers, Sam p.s. there is (at least?) one annoying relic of the old Debian system lingering on my new Devuan OS, however: /etc/debian_version still says stretch/sid, and /proc/version now says: Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 (2015-08-04) Is my triumphant declaration of success premature? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWPXpkAAoJEC0e31KgXFCJ21kP/iyRKjrNB5RJUlRnx4sN/GFY ABdeIIdWuEgrrUrKW83wKA1+KCUPOMUdRwezNDtCBSBic45Pzk6QTaeYEK6Y4Y0g Cx3OzjRE0u7aTtW/amYq1tZ9r+TcuebjA4R7CL07DpTzb/v5Se4ugI2VaHXBLZpC 7gCy/Ue0S7gub+wHJYj1QgJOwZSMIwYDpVDBf9Xvp9rCBqiDaB8JoWPWhZCAocs4 ECKp0ydA3PDpN3l+oTbZ9PIhRf2CycX9IKpfKuw4Ce2WInIE+qMdlUd2oEP7odGd KXpc95kTbLc9YyUuOuzeM9265O/v9rTyJmIq7Wt0wKoB74WcpLTbIq8xuTfLrBut 6W9sorrq+eZS9uNsjlpukCeWQQwGkq8RfsMngOiiJOaPMw1oPD70+zJcpJZbcEfV 1gLaGl91lJeYNlhLPnvWQYAO/q60ht8mRVsz1ns0OHzcqlHB3vifbZaCe81zll4U 2Y2UFAdbYDK10+ycr/LKVVju0AIDi3mI23hXZKQoaW1wAwkWMQ3NnDhozlr7glah Xn3j7U97+ItAAW5oIJGfSPOoGEpVwN+UVaOiJB6eydCo2BNTX5WBxFt6SM54wOUf hafb52INmiqtGRyfhO1z+4xuTiRgQE3vfR1IOs/4Ug4rWwQUHfzYgLa4kNz4SNaS rW7bxgm2Y/uWqNA5sjrv =g1He -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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