On Sun 15 Sep 2019 at 23:31:23 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > 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.
The Release Notes don't mention it because there is nothing to say. I changed sources.list on a sysvinit system to point to buster. Did 'apt update' followed by 'apt full-upgrade'. systemd-sysv was not in the list of packages to be installed. I installed and rebooted. 'cat /proc/1/comm still shows "init". You can upgrade with confidence that the init system will remain as it is. -- Brian.
