this post is solved, albeit it took a fuckwit as reticent as a british savage to determine that.

rolfie, you have no right to flame me,
you see my participation,
I would be interested to know your nationality,
your behaviour is something like a defective retiscent british quarter wit.

It's just more confusion,
starting off in Linux installing not knowing what a mount point is,
building modules to get your usb frog modem to work.
I don't know what newbies spin thesedays, mint, not knoppix.
what do newbies do in 2024 who are sceptical of identity theft.

is usrmerge innovation growth, or reduntant obsolete service economy earning money under false pretences parasite killing the host entrophy evil.

A clever person can ascertain, regardless of masquerade, priority, who is spinning the Devuan testing iso right now, and that's the MSS and come backwards. offline. no shit
funny the democracy, I'm an artist, between my ears is a chief salad.
what about yours golinux!
give me a word between twinkie and chief salad!!!

I wasn't going to input until tomorrow, but things change.
I didn't expect nothing.
So I am very pleasantly surprised indeed to see input from golinux and rolfie, I was sceptical of such bravery.
golinux and rolfie are, amongst others, two hardcore superlative benefits to this forum, big time.
Now, as rolfie stated on another post, I smart person will spin it from a netinstall iso and build it from there.
And now we have testing iso, thanks to 'ralph down under superior' (superior because he's island mentality,) and him and me making that iso good.
Some years back, I was rooting an Android telephone and the Chinese developer said it was no fugu.
Some I'm searching the web for the fugu program, no fugu is no fucking good shey shey thank you.
I used to work for Mitac Synnex.
Today on top of Excalibur I installed refracta and dummy-logind and Xwrapper.config and usrmerge see you later.
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If I create a script program, say modprobe cdc-acm
I touch & chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/motorola
or I can dot forward slash from anywhere
golinux & rolfie, I am touched.
usrmerge is wrong

thank you rolfie for your wise words, you should only use testing if you are willing to contribute to this phase.
there are numerous people on this forum, experienced commendable people, saying install usrmerge.
this is not a good idea.
correct me if I am wrong but usr-is-merged dummy package is what you should do.

my mistake failure,
usrmerge is not installed
usr-is-merged is an empty package
which infers that the one way ticket silly-links not happened.

And yes it doesn't install without silly-links.
Debootstrap Error
The following error occurred:
Unmerged /usr is not compatible with excalibur

I think most of all, thank you for the most important lingua franca, silly-links.
At this stage of playing around testing, should us amateurs fret about this silly-links one way ticket.

I'm back from the shops.
I will now try the 20240424 from nluug dot nl.
I have 3 cheap as chips computers, laptop, mini-itx, mini-pc, all circa EFI Celeron N3350.
I am writing this in refractasnapshot on the mini-pc with a 10 inch monitor.
The most reliable is the ASRock mini-itx, followed by the Asus laptop, then the BMAX mini-pc.
When I tried to install on the laptop, it didn't even get to the initial menu until I acpi=off.
This is the kernel.
6.1.0-16 introduced some not small acpi problems, 6.1.0-20 ok.
I will now get the iso and try it and post again in 10 minutes .

I've always done install offline barebones.
When I get to that stage, I unstar, install standard stuff,
use vi editor