On Fri April 5 2019 16:33:06 Michael wrote:
> Thanks for the headsup and Is this the guide you used for Debian Stretch w/
> sysvinit?
>
> https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Deb
>ian_Stretch_installation
>
> If not, would you link us with what you did use?

When we install Stretch we actually do a default install without
a GUI and then switch from systemd to sysvinit before doing
anything else.  In the link you provided that's just the first set
of "required steps" ... 1, 2, 3, done.  In fact I'm not even
sure if "2" is needed.  I think the inittab appears on its own
but I could be mistaken as we use some scripts for this and
the scripts might create /etc/inittab.

In order to do everything we wanted we found we had to use
Stretch Backports.  For example we didn't want policykit-1
and hplip depends on this in Stretch but it's only a
recommendation in Stretch Backports.

--Mike