On Sun 15 Sep 2019 at 21:52:50 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Roger Lynn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have three Stretch AMD64 systems with sysvinit - a desktop and laptop > > running KDE and a headless server. Is there any information available > > anywhere to tell me what will happen when I attempt to upgrade them to > > Buster? The release notes don't mention it and other sources I can find just > > talk about switching from systemd to sysvinit, which doesn't look easy with > > a desktop environment. > > If you want to keep sysvinit, here's the order of events: > > change sources from stretch to buster
Fine. > apt update Splendid. > apt dist-upgrade Great. > apt install sysvinit-core What happens if this is not done? -- Brian.
