Buster without systemd?
Supposedly, one can install/upgrade to Buster while maintaining sysv as
init. Or has this changed. Over the past several months I have been
attempting to upgrade to Buster, but I have been completely unsuccessful.
Has anyone managed to upgrade to Buster without installing systemd, or
jumping through hoops that would drive a lion tamer mad?
I made a copy of all of my partitions so that I could do the upgrade
while maintaining Stretch in case something went wrong. I'm glad that I did!
The first time that I tried this, I actually managed to upgrade to
Buster and have everything appear to work. Then I realized that I had
only done an "upgrade" but not a "full-upgrade". After that, X would
not start. I have, as I said, spent several months trying to get X
working on Buster without systemd. I have not been successful. None of
my later attempts ever got a working Buster with X, at all.
Is it possible to do what I want? Or, after 21 to 22 years of using
Debian (since Bo), do I have to switch to another linux distro? I would
rather not have to switch, but you choose the distro that suits your
needs, and if Debian no longer suits my needs then I may have to.
Marc
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