definitely a clean install is best. when i prepare and partition a new hdd/ssd i always reserve several partitions for future newer versions(or completely different operating systems). and they are always there if i need to use them for some temporary purpose. don't forget a bullet-proof back-up plan!

if you've just done a fresh install of Devuan 5 Daedalus then your /etc/apt/sources.list should have lines like

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main

@stultumanto, came across your post regarding the unknown Dell admin password:
ttps://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47591#p47591

this search on dell.com shows 69.7K results(naturally a better search will narrow down the results):
ttps://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/search?q=%22reset%20admin%20password%22

would be great if you could figure it out

perhaps this will help _some_ future thread visitor

ttps://www.ralphminderhoud.com/blog/rclone-two-way-dropbox-sync/

if go to _ttps://www.devuan.org/get-devuan

and some poking around, might find

_ttps://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/daedalus/main/installer-amd64/20230607%2Bdeb12u4devuan1/images/netboot/

and 52MB netboot

netboot.tar.gz   10-Dec-2023 19:07   52506966

apologize if have misunderstood request

adding link for possible review

ttps://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_armhf/release_notes.txt

ttps://chimera-linux.org/docs/

decided to get more familiar with this distro even though it is still in alpha(afaik)
ttps://chimera-linux.org/news/2023/06/entering-alpha.html

tl;dr: see just the faq
ttps://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq

also see this previous forum thread
ttps://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5554

20240122-1338UTC---edited-to-add-additional-links-below---
about chimera linux:
ttps://www.theregister.com/2023/02/13/chimera_non_gnu_linux/

older commentary regarding smaller niche disros(mentions Devuan, Gentoo, Void, etc):
ttps://www.theregister.com/2018/05/16/contributing_to_keep_small_linux_alive/

side comment/note:

remember having one of these netbooks years ago(until the magic smoke was released from it by an errant screwdriver blade)

seem to recall in those days that the (u)efi setups were quite buggy and different vendors appeared to purposefully go "off-specification"

edited to change comment

additional edit to add this link
ttps://blog.fpmurphy.com/2012/12/efivars-and-efivarfs.html

re: wayland

enjoyed this commentary and the comments as well

ttps://blog.tenstral.net/2024/01/wayland-really-breaks-things-just-for-now.html

re: fake shutdown / fast boot / fast startup / hibernation / sleep / etc

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation_(computing)#Microsoft_Windows

has been available in some form since microsoft windows 95...

all working ok now(checked w/ dillo, firefox, links, and lynx)

our lenovo y580 has a "normal" bios and an "advanced" bios
we have never figured out how to consistently access the advanced bios
(we have only seen it 3 times and the last time we grabbed a camera and took pics of each area/screen/tab for future reference)

we would much prefer to have the advanced bios menu available every time we enter the bios area
(hopefully we will come across someone somewhere sometime who has the correct answer/process to do this)

good luck!