Dev1 Galaxy Forum / What should I know before "diving in"

Re: What should I know before "diving in"

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 02:03:17 +0000

If you upgrade to Beowulf, as it's unstable your PATH will break
also your bootloader-id will need to be set to debian. You can do this in chroot if you reboot before restarting. smile

The PATH change was deliberate. Use 'su -' instead of 'su' and you'll get root's normal path.
You can do grub-install --bootloader-id=debian OR replace grub-efi-amd64-signed with grub-efi-amd64 (and make sure secure boot is turned off.)

Re: What should I know before "diving in"

dummy@example.com (czeekaj) — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:47:52 +0000

Use refractainstaller-yad. It's a lot easier than Ubuntu's installer. IMHO.
If you upgrade to Beowulf, as it's unstable your PATH will break
also your bootloader-id will need to be set to debian. You can do this in chroot if you reboot before restarting.
All the non-free-firmware are in /firmware. There is a local command

 remove-non-free-firmware

which will purge all the non-free packages
also refractasnapshot will create a snapshot of your install including home. Than you can dd it to a usb for easy imagining.

Other than that, beowulf is on 4.19 and Ceres is on 5.2.0-2.

have fun, witamy

Re: What should I know before "diving in"

dummy@example.com (aut0exec) — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 01:34:14 +0000

reunite_pangaea wrote:

I'm a Mint user who, maybe this week, will start a dual boot with Devuan.
While I am a Mint user, I've had experience with Arch and Ubuntu minimal before and I've installed Devuan on VirtualBox. But is there anything I should really know before installing it directly?
And yes, I know the whole "back up your current system before installing a second OS" thing and I intend to do so.

Welcome! Former Mint user as well... You'll like Devuan; I've been running ASCII, Beowulf, and Ceres with Cinnamon on a number of different machines and everything still feels like Mint but runs so much better!

Re: What should I know before "diving in"

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:46:27 +0000

A fresh install should go smoothly. The installer isos are just like installing debian. The live isos use refractainstaller. Install guides can be found on this page. (scroll down about half way)
https://devuan.org/get-devuan

What should I know before "diving in"

dummy@example.com (reunite_pangaea) — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:06:16 +0000

I'm a Mint user who, maybe this week, will start a dual boot with Devuan.

While I am a Mint user, I've had experience with Arch and Ubuntu minimal before and I've installed Devuan on VirtualBox. But is there anything I should really know before installing it directly?

And yes, I know the whole "back up your current system before installing a second OS" thing and I intend to do so.