> On Sep 6, 2019, at 10:41 AM, golinux@??? wrote:
>
> On 2019-09-06 07:33, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 11:27:03PM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
>>> Dear Dev1ers,
>>> Many of you have asked how you can help Devuan. Well, here's an opportunity
>>> - especially for those who keep asking when Beowulf will be released!
>>> There have been reports that the migration process from Debian Buster to
>>> Devuan Beowulf is not as straight-forward as Wheezy/Jessie to Jessie and/or
>>> Stretch to ASCII. If we are to offer migration as an "official" option, we
>>> will need to document specific issues and provide solutions in our
>>> documentation.
>>> So . . . please roll up your sleeves, give it a try and let us know if you
>>> were able to migrate successfully from Buster to Beowulf. What issues did
>>> you have? How did you work around them? Are there any blockers?
>> I've got buster on a partition I never use and was thinking of deleting.
>> I could try crossgrading to beowulf before I delete it.
>> Would that help? It would not likely get any actual usage to discover
>> problems beyond the actual crossgrade itself.
>> -- hendrik
>
> Yes. Please do! If you can spare the time, would also be helpful to know if the basics work after the migration. Thanks.
>
> golinux

I made a Buster droplet with digitalocean, and then upgraded it to Beowulf, other than the need to download devuan-keyring by hand, it was painless. It has no desktop software, but apache, mariadb, and php-fpm work fine.

The process was:
update the sources.list and point it to devuan beowulf
download and install devuan-keyring
apt-get install sysvinit-core
reboot
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get purge systemd
apt-get purge unscd #this might be digitalocean´s choice, but it gives me trouble adding users and groups.
I think I rebooted another time after this, and that was it.

--
Héctor González
cacho@???