It looks like you did things in the right order. When I do installs like that, it sometimes takes me a few tries to get it right.
Check /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab, /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I think something is aiming for the wrong target.

If you want encryption and you want a swap partition, it's easier to do it with encrypted lvm. Then the OS partition(s) and swap will all be part of the encrypted volume. If you just want a single partition, you could use a swap file.

As an example, I use a 256MB swapfile on a laptop. None of that is being used at the moment. On my desktop machine I have a 1GB swapfile, and 16 MB of that are in use. On a server that runs radio automation software (constantly playing music from a playlist) that has LVM and RAID, the 256MB swapfile is about half full. These machines have 6 or 8 GB RAM.

Note: Encryption only works when the computer is turned off. It's useful in case someone steals your computer or you have to send the hard drive out for replacement or repair.

If you're worried about writes to the  ssd, you could put the swap on one or both of the spinning disks. You would need to make the RAID from partitions instead of the whole drive, to leave room for a swap partition. Oh, I suppose you could put a swapfile inside the RAID. That might be easier. Then you don't need to make the extra partition.

This one is a few days old. It's for ceres, but there should be a screen early in the install that asks what suite you want. You might need to choose expert install to get that question.
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … s/netboot/

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Then they might need to avoid metapackages that pull in things that might conflict with other things they want.

For better granularity in package selection, un-check everything at the tasksel window except maybe Standard System Utilities. You probably want those. Then add what you want after you reboot into the new system.

Use the option "--no-install-recommends" when you install packages. If that will exclude something you want, then add that package to your list of things to install. You can use "--simulate" with apt-get apt or aptitude to check what will happen before you actually do it.

Here's a list of what task-console-productivity pulls in.

apt show task-console-productivity
<snip>
Recommends: dialog, zsh, entr, gddrescue, gdisk, htop, iftop, iotop, iw, mtr-tiny, multitail, ncdu, parted, pciutils, psmisc, sudo, time, wavemon, wireless-tools, wpasupplicant, ed, zile, bind9-host, bittornado, curl, dnsutils, edbrowse, fetchmail, ftp, geoip-bin, irssi, lftp, links2, lrzsz, mcabber, minicom, mosh, msmtp, mutt, netcat, net-tools, nfacct, nrss, openssh-client, openssh-server, procmail, rsync, telnet, tin, traceroute, w3m, wget, whois, abook, apcalc, aspell, aspell-en, calcurse, clex, dvtm, fbi, fbterm, ghostscript, gnupg, gnupg2, gnupg-agent, mc, parallel, poppler-utils, rpl, rename, sc, screen, taskwarrior, tmux, bastet, bombardier, bsdgames, cavezofphear, crawl, curseofwar, empire, freesweep, gnuchess, greed, matanza, moria, nethack-console, ninvaders, omega-rpg, pacman4console, pente, sudoku, beep, brltty, espeak, espeakup, yasr, alsa-utils, caca-utils, hasciicam, imagemagick, jhead, moc, radio, sox, cmatrix, cowsay, eject, figlet, fortunes-min, fortune-mod, gpm, man-db, manpages, manpages-dev, mlocate, termsaver, toilet, toilet-fonts, ttyrec, unzip

'apt show luit' give me this:

Breaks: x11-utils (<< 7.7+6)
Replaces: x11-utils (<< 7.7+6)

which suggests that luit might work with newer x11-utils than what is in ceres/daedalus (7.7+5) so maybe you can't have both luit and xorg or maybe a newer xorg is coming at the last hour before bookworm release. Have you looked for any debian bug reports about this? That might tell you if they have plans to fix it.

One way to do it would be to install the second system without installing a bootloader and then run 'update-grub' in the first system. The new installation will be added (if os-prober is installed and enabled in /etc/default/grub).

If you want the second system to be the one in charge of booting, you can give it a different name. Boot into second system and run

grub-install --bootloader-id=somecoolname
update-grub

and then the boot files will be in /boot/efi/EFI/somecoolname

Edit: If your computer's uefi works like mine, the new one will be set to boot first.
And, if your computer's uefi works the way it's supposed to work, you'll also be able to change the boot order with efibootmgr.

This looks like what I get on one laptop when I run the debian/devuan installer. You might be able to specify a screen resolution at the boot screen. If you're booting uefi, you can edit the selected entry in the boot menu by pressing e and then adding a line before the linux line that says set gfxpayload=<some resolution that works> then press ctrl-x to boot.

If you're booting legacy bios, you get an isolinux boot menu and you can press TAB to edit the boot command and add vga=<some vga mode that works>

Maybe check what the screen resolution is when you're running the desktop-live system and use that.

I just installed faac from non-free and firmware-iwlwifi from non-free-firmware in daedalus without any errors.

Sometimes you get errors if you hit a mirror just when it's updating, and in those cases, it works again after a few minutes.

And sometimes a mirror is down. If it turns out that your sources.list is correct and you still have problems, you could select a specific mirror from this list: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt
You can check the status of mirrors on this page: https://sledjhamr.org/apt-panopticon/re … t-web.html

FYI, you need to replace $OFFSET with a number, but I don't see the numbers you need from the fdisk command to calculate the offset. (sector size X first sector)

Here's a maintainers guide for forked packages. https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … ngGuide.md

You'll get much more information in the debian documentation listed on that page.

If you're doing this to learn how to do packaging, you might want to start with some smaller and easier packages.

Y'all might be pleased to learn that the default xfce desktop install in daedalus does not pull in xscreensaver.

I think you need to build it in a chroot that has the build deps installed. That can be done with pbuilder or fully manually or probably another way.

I passed your question up the chain to see if there's a different answer.

Encrypted or LVM installs with debian-installer can be confusing. Maybe this will help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEl2S5MI-WU
Manual partitioning begins around 4:50