> To be able to answer the question how to add swap, you owe us some information about which kind of boundary condition we are facing in your case. How does the installation look alike currently?
>    # fdisk -l

> Note: the first command is run on the user account, the second one as root, indicated by the prompt before the command.

> PS: I do set up my system with the traditional so called full disk encryption with luks, having an unencrypted /boot, and I am decrypting the computer with hidden >keys sitting on USB sticks. When the stick is removed the PC does not boot.

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: ST1000DM003-1CH1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xcc603bdc

Device     Boot     Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048  269588479  269586432 128.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       269588480  424511487  154923008  73.9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3       424511488 1953523711 1529012224 729.1G 83 Linux

I set up sda1 /, and sda3 /home to have the same encryption "key" but separately during Install

> How did you create these 3 partitions? And how did you use the partitioner inside the installer? Did you use manual or guided partitioning?

During installation I used 2 different programs to partition, one was gparted, and the other (I don't remember the name of) was also in the Live installation.
(SunOS was so much easier to partition!)

$ inxi -Fzr
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-30-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1
    Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Inspiron 3847 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 088DT1 v: A01 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
    v: A04 date: 04/03/2014
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-4150 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2146 min/max: 800/3500 cores: 1: 3491 2: 800 3: 3493
    4: 800
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
    driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW
    GT2)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-30-amd64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: ath9k
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 70.83 GiB (2.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1CH162 size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01UBB200 size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 125.47 GiB used: 6.03 GiB (4.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
  ID-2: /home size: 716.57 GiB used: 64.8 GiB (9.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 256 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 518 mobo: 855
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    1: deb [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged[/url] daedalus main non-free-firmware
    2: deb [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged[/url] daedalus-updates main non-free-firmware
    3: deb [url]http://deb.devuan.org/merged[/url] daedalus-security main non-free-firmware
Info:
  Processes: 222 Uptime: 1h 48m Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 1.99 GiB (25.9%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.26

>  If you deny you have to use the Ubuntu way with sudo for administrative tasks.

Actually, I have used "sudo" in the past, Your comment explains why "su" would only give an "Authentication Failure" when I tried to run commands as "root"!
(As you can see above "sudo" allowed me to run "fdisk -l" above.

Thanks again for your responses!

Sincerely,
Tweedlewise

Okay, downloaded Daedalus amd and installed it to a USB drive.
It has installed on the PC (I'm writing from it now-Yay!)
Much quicker than DVD!

During install I gave it separate passwords for the disk, partitions, root, and user/self.
I am currently transferring files from my backup to my home partition.

A couple of problems.
I made 3 partitions root, swap, home
I set the 2nd as linux-swap, but is not being used as swap, just sits there, showing up as a partition that I cannot access,
1. How can I get the system to recognize it as swap when booting?

2. Also when I try to access the root partition (or swap as it is listed in Thunar) , it pops up an "Authentication Required" dialog box, but the passwords I've attempted (the ones I made during install) do not work.

3. How do I install additional programs?
   Is that what RefractaInstaller is for?
  I have never heard of Refracta before going to Devuan.
[edit]
NEVER MIND #3 I figured it out as Synaptic Package Manager

Sincerely,
Tweedlewise

>Hi there, welcome to the dev1galaxy forum.

Thank you, Rolfie!

>Well, some questions: is your computer really about ten years old?
Year of manufacture: 2014

>Then why do you want to install the 32bit version?
Huh?

> Why not amd64?
Because it is an Intel processor? And I didn't see a 64 bit Intel version listed.

> Any ten year old PC will be able to use that (except some very crude simple outdated stuff).
> And why use a DVD?
Because it has one.

> Booting from an USB stick should also be fully supported from such kind of hardware.
I think I tried that first, and when the install went sideways, I went with DVD .iso because that is what worked in the (not so distant) past.

> A guess: NVidia graphics involved?
I don't really know...

> It would be perfect for support if we knew more about the involved components. Please can you add here the output from

> inxi -Fzr
If I can run (and save the output) from boot  single user (recovery?) mode, I'll do that.
BTW, I'm an old UNIX sysop, but never heard of that command before, I hope to get it posted for you.

Thanks again!

? It may be neccesary to install this package first.