Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:35:48PM +, Joe wrote: > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:35:48 + > From: Joe > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie > X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Thom Miller
On 01/06/2015 06:57 AM, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:42:43 + > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> On Ter, 06 Jan 2015, Joe wrote: >>> The main issue is that anything local mounted in /etc/fstab (even >>> removable drives) will be treated as essential, and if they are not >>> there, boo

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/6/2015 7:27 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 06/01/15 13:12, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 12:11:48 +0100, Gerard ROBIN wrote: >> >>> usually when the distribution changes, I update my system rather than >>> reinstall everything. But for the transition from wheezy to jessie, >>> I w

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 14:32:00 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 06/01/15 13:48, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > > > > I agree with you regarding jessie, I installed it on a USB drive and > > it works fine with systend, but but what concerns me is the transition > > from sysvinit to systemd on wheezy.

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Joe
On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:42:43 + Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 06 Jan 2015, Joe wrote: > > The main issue is that anything local mounted in /etc/fstab (even > > removable drives) will be treated as essential, and if they are not > > there, boot will fail. The answer is either to remove

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 06 Jan 2015, Joe wrote: The main issue is that anything local mounted in /etc/fstab (even removable drives) will be treated as essential, and if they are not there, boot will fail. The answer is either to remove any such drives from fstab, as the kernel automounting should be good enough

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 13:48:10 +0100, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:27:35PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > > My advice would be to go with the minimum effort upgrade, as you would > > have done in the past. I've been running Jessie in a KVM client for > > several months

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Joe
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:48:10 +0100 Gerard ROBIN wrote: > > I agree with you regarding jessie, I installed it on a USB drive and > it works fine with systend, but but what concerns me is the > transition from sysvinit to systemd on wheezy. If I understand what I > read on the web (in English ...

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/01/15 13:48, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:27:35PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:27:35 +0100 >> From: Tony van der Hoff >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie >> Us

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:27:35PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:27:35 +0100 > From: Tony van der Hoff > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 06/01/15 13:12, Brian wrote: > On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 12:11:48 +0100, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > >> usually when the distribution changes, I update my system rather than >> reinstall everything. But for the transition from wheezy to jessie, >> I would like to know: >> >> -1- Is it possible to go fr

Re: upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 12:11:48 +0100, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > usually when the distribution changes, I update my system rather than > reinstall everything. But for the transition from wheezy to jessie, > I would like to know: > > -1- Is it possible to go from wheezy to jessie, keeping sysvinit.