On 20 May 2018 at 00:34, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2018 schrieb Robert Peters:
>> On 22 April 2018 at 12:28, Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@...> wrote:
>>
>> 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


Hello Nik,
Thanks for the reply. For now, I have installed Debian 9 to an unused
area of the laptop's SSD. In the migration instructions I followed
most of the steps but stopped at the command "apt-get purge systemd
systemd-shim". It offered in part to do the following:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  caja* dbus-user-session* gvfs* gvfs-backends* gvfs-daemons* libpam-systemd*
  lightdm* mate-applets* mate-control-center* mate-desktop-environment*
  mate-desktop-environment-core* mate-panel* mate-polkit* mate-power-manager*
  mate-settings-daemon* network-manager* network-manager-gnome* policykit-1*
  synaptic* systemd* systemd-sysv* task-mate-desktop* udisks2*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  initscripts insserv startpar sysv-rc sysvinit-core

But I am reluctant to proceed, apprehensive of clobbering the system.
What do you think?
- R