I am glad it worked out for you. All the best.

Hi, welcome here.

This is a bit tragic, but I have tried to reinstall from a package cache using apt and/or dpkg...

It was hectic, took a while for the system to figure out and sort all the versions held there but

eventually it progressed and borked and could not continue due to too many errors (dependency not found).

So, that was just upgrading a clean install to current, from my offline cache, copied from /var/cache/apt/.

I had to do a clean install to get the system back up and running.

Another thing I have tried is the "mount iso" for use as a repo... never worked, not secure enough.

So when I see things that may help using a local repo, I'd like to try it.

The package I mentioned before, local-apt-repository is not available for Devuan, probably because of system D, but I'd still like to try it (apt works!).

I agree with @aluma, I too just use the absolute path to the package...

but I have several bash scripts that install groups of packages... for different stages of installation and restore of backup config files.

All of this is with off-line installation in mind (as a motive).

anyhow, the quest goes on. Thank you Devuan Devs for giving this stable platform to work from.

Hi, 120Gb is heaps of space, considering you may have access to your win$ docs and files as well. (Maybe not for a clean drive)

The installer program may offer partition scheme solutions, if so, select a separate /home partition (at the least, / & /home) or more /usr /tmp

edit... if the hardware is really new you may have to check and see if all the sensors are workable... is the chipset in the kernel?

Usually the longest wait, for chipset manufacturers to release GNU/Linux code for the motherboard sys. Check with the pci-list(?)...https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/

Hi, I did this not too long ago, and I just powered down, swapped the cards...

(made the usual attempt to keep the cables on the box tidy, removed redundant drives, etc.)

And powered the system on and booted to safe-mode with my usual edits for grub...

vga=794 modeset.nouveau=0 nokmsboot

From X I re-run the nVidia blob installer.

All the best.

Hi, I use the same tech to keep hdmi out of my way.

.asoundrc overrides the automagic. No sound for other users incl root unless I add the rc file to their accounts.

Thanks Heaps! :-)

hahahahaha, thanks for the laughs everyone. :-)

I used to have a /boot partition, but with UEFI it was difficult to manage the size (it only filled up once but that was enough),

so I stopped worrying about /boot file space. (The bios partition only requires 100Mb)

your / is 28Gb... I reserve 28Gb just for /var. here's the rest...

df -h

glenn@GamesBox ~ $ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           1.6G  1.4M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/sda2        22G  1.3G   19G   7% /
/dev/sda6        17G  9.6G  5.8G  63% /usr
tmpfs           5.0M   16K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           3.7G     0  3.7G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7       865G  121G  700G  15% /home
/dev/sdc6        58G   18G   38G  32% /home/glenn/local/archive
/dev/sdc2       295G  208G   73G  75% /home/glenn/local/data
/dev/sdc5       472G  119G  329G  27% /home/glenn/local/free
/dev/sdc7       711G   50G  625G   8% /home/glenn/local/media/circus
/dev/sdc9       480G  255G  201G  56% /home/glenn/local/media/movies
/dev/sdc8       961G  103G  809G  12% /home/glenn/local/media/music
/dev/sdc1       207G   12G  185G   6% /home/glenn/local/other
/dev/sdc3       480G   58G  398G  13% /home/glenn/local/spare
/dev/sda5       2.9G   17M  2.7G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda3       8.1G  1.6G  6.1G  21% /var
/dev/loop0      3.7G  3.7G     0 100% /home/glenn/local/archive/debs/iso/devuan_daedalus_5.0.1_i386_desktop
/dev/loop1      3.8G  3.8G     0 100% /home/glenn/local/archive/debs/iso/devuan_daedalus_5.0.1_amd64_desktop
cgroup_root      10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           1.6G   12K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
glenn@GamesBox ~ $ 

Some places you can check for swelling...
/tmp/
/var/log/
/var/cache/apt/archives/

just my two cents worth. :-)

The system is quite old (not that old it NOT should work) and may not supply enough power for a longer cable.

Have you checked your power supply specs?
just a thought...

is the eth chip auto x-over (cable) detect?

checkout this link...

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6066

It's not building for some reason.

apt install libglvnd-dev libglvnd0 pkg-config build-essential gcc12 linux-headers linux-headers-common linux-compiler-gcc-12

check for error messages...