Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2018 schrieb Robert Peters:
> On 23 May 2018 at 05:03, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2018 schrieb Robert Peters:
> >> Vielen Dank, aber...
> >> After purging systemd and rebooting, I was unable to get to a command
> >> line - it asked me to choose a runlevel, etc...
> >> So instead, I installed Exegnu, which is based on Devuan and Trinity.
> >> Using a wired connection I got it more or less updated to stretch and
> >> am still working on wireless connectivity.  Basically it works, so I
> >> continue to peck away at little things...
> >> - R
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > How did you manage to go from exelinux (devuan) to stretch (debian)?
> >
> > Nik
> 
> 
> That's probably where I run into problems with upgrading. Some of the
> packages that show in Synaptic as upgradable don't want to upgrade -
> they are shown as held back.  I'll work on it (maybe "stretch" has to
> be "ascii").

Ok. Maybe it would be a better idea to start afresh with the devuan ascii installer? You find RC2 installers on any server listed here: https://devuan.org/get-devuan in the folder devuan_ascii_rc/installer-iso/

Nik


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