The question is what do you really want to achieve? The documentation on the Devuan web page uses the guided partitioning, does possibly not help in this case.
I can describe what I do on my PCs. /home is encrypted but always on its own device and set up after the system installation.

Partitioning beforehand with a gparted life stick:
p1 = ESP 512 MiB VFAT/FAT32 on an EFI system, omitted on legacy with MBR/MSDOS partitioning scheme. It gets a bit complicated when GPT is used.
p2 = /boot 2048 MiB ext4 unencrypted.
p3 = large ext4 volume for encryption and LVM inside, set up in the installer by manual partitioning.

In the installer proceed until partitioning and select manual.
Assign p1 to be used as ESP if applicable.
p2: use as ext4, assign /boot, format. Assign names if you want.
p3: use as Volume for Encryption. Exit and go to "Configure encrypted volumes". Go through this process and exit.

Now you should also have a device called something like /dev/mapper/p3_crypt with ext4 file system. Now you set that into "Physical volume for LVM" instead of ext4. Exit.

Call the "Logical Volume Manager". You are asked to provide a name for the Logical Volume group at first. When that is setup you can define Logical volumes, e.g. 1_root, 2_swap as I do, and 3_home if you like. You will be asked for a size definition. You may use MB, % ... . Exit the "Logical Volume Manager" when you are done.
Now you should find /dev/mapper/1_root .... in the display. Select these devices one by one and assign file system and the mount point. Only when this point is done you can leave the partitioning menu and start the installation.

Topic 8 in https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … encryption might give some insight how the result about should look alike.

Why do you need it? Do you have Secure Boot enabled?

https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … o-daedalus

Well, a fix could be to reformat it with the oldest distro that needs to access that partition.

darktable is a 64bit only application. When you use the link to Packages in the top right corner you can check yourself.

And no, there is no easy way to convert to 64bit. You should download an amd64 medium and repeat the installation.

I guess desktop drives are being replaced by ssds and nvmes today. The enterprise drives go into servers, NAS storage etc.

Anyhow: I never bought a hard drive where the manufacturer did not trust its product for 5 years warranty. WD Black and HGST did fulfill this requirement, I have several of them still around. And I wanted full warranty with easy check and direct manufacturer contact, no dealer inbetween. Fujitsu and Toshiba did not qualify for me because of this.

What exactly do have, and what do you want to achieve?

Just installed POS in a VM: indeed the installation calls the debian multimedia repo in the sources.list.d directory. Access in my VM went fine, question is why the OP has a problem to access it. Network not set up correctly? DNS trouble?

I also found that per default just the main repo is present in the sources.list, and non-free-firmware is missing which might be crucial for the graphics card setup.
The other entries are present just commented out. So its easy to enable them. Just remove the # on the beginning.

ntpdate and ntpsec are not installed by default in Daedalus, has to be done afterwards. With ntpsec the conf dir has moved to /etc/ntpsec.

BTW: timedatectl is a systemd tool, afaik not present on Devuan.

I am not aware of any timeout related to the login time on the forum. I can stay logged in as long as I like. Using FF ESR latest version on Daedalus.

Sometimes I use gedit or geany to prepare a longer post. But mainly because I have to leave the topic alone for a while, and don't want to leave the browser open or shut down the PC.

Maybe your problem is related to a forced IP change of your internet provider?

Some ideas: You determine your necessities. As long as you are happy with the OS and the software you are running, you may keep Beowulf.

The open question is: no more upgrades/safety fixes for Beowulf. Can you live with that? I have seen your posts about xorg security issues. They are getting fixed with Daedalus.

Risk with latest releases: removal of support for older hardware. Is a matter of test.

What bloat is concerned: yes its possible that things like CSD are trickling down. But they still can be removed. And an installation with --no-install-recommends may also help to keep the system clean from unwanted software.

Well, chaos. You have as well Testing as Unstable in your sources. What are you trying to achieve with this setup? Do you know what you are doing?