On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 08:05:35 -0600
Kent West via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Following the instructions at
> https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/chimaera/bullseye-to-chimaera
>
> I've tried it on two VirtualBox VMs (one two different Debian host boxes -
> a Dell desktop and a Dell laptop). Both VMs were minimal Debian installs.
>
> I commented out all the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and added the
> following as the only lines in the file:
>
> deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main deb
> http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main deb
> http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main #deb
> http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main
>
> Then I ran
>
> # apt-get update --allow-insecure-repositories
>
> which generated a dozen or so warnings/errors, which I assume is normal for
> the process, so I ignored them.
>
> Then I ran
>
> # apt-get install devuan-keyring --allow-unauthenticated
>
> which generated a warning or two in the process. But the process appeared
> to complete properly.
>
> Then I did
>
> # apt-get update
>
> which installed a few things, and appeared to complete properly.
>
> Then I did
>
> # apt-get upgrade
>
> which insisted I type in the phrase, "Yes, do as I say!". This generated
> warnings/errors about too many errors processing systemd.
>
> The next step,
>
> # apt-get install eudev
>
> installed "openntpd" and then generated a warning that there is no init
> system and policy-rc.d missing.
>
> The next step, the command to "reboot", resulted with "-bash: reboot:
> command not found". Furthermore, the "shutdown" command can not be found.
> The only way I could find to reboot was to do a VM reset.
>
> On reboot, there were messages about recovering the journal and clearing
> orphaned inodes, then:
>
> run-init: can't execute '/sbin/init': No such file or directory
> Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
> run-init: can't execute (/sbin/init, /etc/init/, /bin/init): No such file
> or directory
> /bin/sh: 0: can't access tty; job control turned off
>
> The next step
>
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> failed, partly because the file system is mounted read-only. Although I can
> remount it as read-write, whatever is broken with the system is broken, and
> the rest of these instructions aren't going to work. You just run into the
> next problem (non-working network). This, too, can be fixed, but then you
> run into another problem. Etc.
>
>
> TL;DR - The conversion instructions don't work with Debian Bullseye 11.1,
> at least not on minimal Debian VMs using VirtualBox on Debian, for me.
>
> I can just wipe these two VMs and start from scratch, no problem. But
> thought whoever wrote that conversion page might need to know my experience.
>
>

Hi,
would you like to the test this conversion script at:

https://git.devuan.org/farmatito/migration

Hope it helps.

Ciao,
Tito