On 17/08/17 08:46, Joel Roth wrote:
Dave Turner wrote:
I have boot from a debian 6 squeeze CD, anything later refuses to boot the
iMac. (Fedora has failed since fedora 13, Tinycore linux boots, Slackware
boots) Then I do a dist-upgrade to wheezy, that takes it straight to 7.11
which has the beginnings of systemd in it.
I used aptitude to get rid of anything with systemd in the name, then I
deleted everything systemd from /lib/systemd and etc/systemd.
There are units for starting services in /lib/systemd, but
go unused unless you have systemd installed. At least one
proof-of-concept init system, a wrapper for runit, aims at
supporting the systemd service units.
https://github.com/the-eater/shinit
The config files in /etc/systemd are equally harmless.
Probably any app that would look in /etc/systemd will be
declared with a systemd dependency.
After a reboot
and purge I was down to 174 packages and a working but very minimal terminal
system. No sound no nothing, reminds me of playing Moonlander on a 300-baud
terminal into the mainframe all those years ago...
Then I did the devuan-jessie dist-upgrade. That pulled in systemd-udevd so I
repeated what I did with wheezy - got rid of all of it! And broke it again!
The screen font stays enormous and the keyboard doesn't work so I can't
login.
I suppose eudev is the next step once I have re-installed squeeze and
wheezy!
DaveT
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Thanks Joel, but I have my 'killing head' on. _ANYTHING_ on wheezy that
dares to mention systemd is gone. Still works.
Having a bottle of wine before I start the devuan-jessie install and the
systemd purge...
(hey, I need a clear head for this right?!)
DaveT
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