@hdwolf:   THANKS!!!   I thought I fixed that a long time ago in refractasnapshot.

You said, "I used this command after doing that."

I ask, "What did you do before you ran that 'find' command?"  It should have worked.

If the problem is that these .service files can't do their job without systemd running, then the solution is to fork nvidia-suspend-common, the package that supplies these .service files. Someone needs to step forward to do the work and maintain it as updates come along. (It most likely will not be someone who is already packaging for devuan - there aren't enough of us.)

If you have pmount installed, spacefm will work without having to write a udev rule. I think it also works with udevil instead of pmount, but it's been years since I've tried it.

I checked to see if spacefm would open an encrypted external drive and it failed, but maybe I need to set some config for it. Alone, pmount in a terminal will ask for the passphrase for the encrpted volume.

One thing missing. Try it like this first.

apt-get --simulate purge <packages>

You should have gotten nm-tray and network-manager with lxqt. Make sure nm-tray is in your desktop startup apps.
Preferences -> LXQT Settings -> Session Settings -> Autostart

Did you install from the DVD without a network mirror? If so, you would be missing a lot of network related packages, even firefox.

Hey greenjeans, thanks for the offer. I've already made some excalibur desktop-live isos, but I haven't published any yet for a couple of reasons. For one thing they would be outdated by a hundred packages or so by the time I signed and uploaded them. Also, I wanted people to test the installer isos. Yeah, that second one doesn't count anymore. Hold that thought.

If you're really hot to start working on Excalibur Vuu-do there's always mini.iso or debootstrap. Find current anomalous debootstrap info for excalibur on this forum. You have to exclude a few things like cron-daemon-common and specify --with-merged-usr or else use mmdebstrap.

There are two ways to solve this. One way is to remove  intel-microcode to make the snapshot and then add it back after you install the system somewhere. The better solution is to use the version that's in excalibur/ceres:

https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … .0_all.deb
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … .0_all.deb

Download and install with dpkg -i refractasnapshot*.deb

The i686 kernels will certainly boot a 64-bit machine. What they won't do is boot in uefi mode. If your computer is set to use uefi you should be using one of the amd64 isos.

When you get to step 20, say NO and finish the install without adding grub.
 
Then reboot into your other linux and make sure that /etc/default/grub is set to allow os-prober to run, and then run update-grub to generate a new boot menu in the old linux that includes boot entries for the new linux.

Maybe this is helpful. It'll show all files in any *.d directory under /etc along with the last modification date. The 'grep -v' parts will filter out things I don't need to see, in this case, /etc/init.d and /etc/rc* (which I just realized will filter out /etc/rc.local which I know I changed.) Add other filters as you see fit. Change the search directory from /etc to something else if you think you changed config files there.

find /etc -wholename "*.d/*" -exec ls -l {} \; | grep -v 'etc/rc' | grep -v 'etc/init.d'

We don't fork falkon, so to download it in a web browser, you would need to go to packages.debian.org and search for falkon in the testing suite (trixie?). I have no idea if that version will work on daedalus.