On 14-11-2020 22:36, Fred wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan.  Apparently all I need
> to do is change the sources list and do a dist-upgrade.
>
> Is this likely to go smoothly?  If there are any problems I would
> probably not have Internet to ask for help.
>
> How does the upgrade get rid of systemd and everything associated with
> it?  Or how does one do that?
>
> Best regards,
> Fred
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Coming from Debian you maybe should change your sources list first to

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged jessie main

and install the devuan-keyring and sysvinit-core before you move over to
devuan ascii.

Grtz

Nick