Hi!

Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2018 schrieb Robert Peters:
> On 22 April 2018 at 12:28, Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@...> wrote:
> > On 04/22/2018 10:43 AM, William Morder wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sunday 22 April 2018 10:33:13 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 04/22/2018 03:26 AM, William Morder wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Right, I am trying to digest all this for when that day comes. But I
> >>>> think I may use that method for simply migrating to Devuan without
> >>>> reinstalling everything. There is a webpage somewhere that links from
> >>>> the
> >>>> Devuan pages. I can find it again, if anybody else out there is really
> >>>> interested.
> >>>
> >>> Here you go:
> >>>
> >>> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/migrate-to-j
> >>> essie
> >>>
> >>>    https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/migrate-to-jessie
> >>>
> >>> Cheers!
> >>
> >> Yup, that's it. I saved the page itself, but not the URL. Thanks for
> >> finding
> >> it. I have a feeling there will be others meeting us in Devuan Land
> >> someday
> >> in the near future.
> >
> > Here's some good news, jessie-backports now has spectre patched kernel.
> > 4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64 is patched, tested on AMD and Intel - Variant 1,2 and 3
> > patched.
> >
> > Cheers!
> > --
> > Jimmy Johnson
> >
> > Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5
> > Registered Linux User #380263
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I installed Debian to an external SSD from the most recent iso image
> and started to follow the migration instructions (webpage link above).
> BUT BEWARE ... the command
>         root@devuan:~# apt-get purge systemd systemd-shim
> offers to also remove most of the Devuan setup and make it unbootable
> !  (no bloody way, mate)
> So the setup still appears to have both Devuan and systemd.  I wonder
> what to do in this case.
> - R

Please follow these stept to move from debian jessie to devuan jessie:

https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/blob/master/migrate-to-jessie.md

Then you might want to move to devuan ascii :-)

Nik

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