Re: Wheezy to Stretch
On 02/21/2018 09:45 AM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with a fresh
install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before Wheezy's support runs out on May
31st. I will try the default systemd installation and see how I like it.
Okay, but I suggest instead you keep your wheezy system and your wheezy
sources and do a upgrade using package upgrade-system, it will clean
your system and then add the stretch sources including backports and run
apt update & apt-upgrade and then run upgrade-system until your system
is upgraded and clean, careful that sysvinit is not removed cause that
package is not in stretch. You can also use apt dist-upgrade and deborphan.
After the installation, I will want to build my system from my favorite
window manager (fvwm). With sysvinit, I would set initdefault to runlevel 3
in /etc/inittab. In /etc/rc3.d, I would rename gdm3 so that I would boot
into a terminal interface (command line) instead of Gnome. Then I would
quickly install fvwm, call startx, and happily finish building.
I know systemd doesn't have inittab. Will the default installation leave me
with a terminal interface whenever I boot? If not, how will I accomplish
that?
I also thought I had read about some problem with window authentication in
Stretch, but I can't find any such posts now.
I don't know of any current problems in stretch.
Thanks.
Cheers,
--
Jimmy Johnson
Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.12.0 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7
Registered Linux User #380263
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