On Fri 12 Sep 2014 at 22:10:28 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote: > I read somewhere that Jessie will still support the old SysVinit (even > if it's not the default init). I intend to use Debian as long as I can > avoid using systemd. After installation you definitely need to do: apt-get install sysvinit-core You may also have to do: apt-get install systemd-shim before issuing the first command.