Google tells me that cpu is in the i7 family. You should be able to run devuan on that with no problems. If it only has 4G ram, choose lxde, mate or xfce or any window manager. Just don't open too many tabs on your web browser.

I have devuan on a machine with 4G and Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU  J1900  @ 1.99GHz. It's slow, but it works. I used that machine to install each devuan desktop environment in a qemu VM to compare their memory use. Here are the screenshots: https://git.devuan.org/fsmithred/screenshots

I use this interactive script so I don't have to type as much. Run it from the directory that contains the iso files. Code is mostly lifted from refracta2usb which can make a multi-boot live-usb and is a lot bigger than this.

You need hwinfo and pv installed for this to work.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# iso2usb.sh
#set -x
#
# Run this script from the directory that contains your .iso files.
#

blocksize="1M"

[[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]] || { echo -e "\n\t You need to be root!\n" ; exit 1 ; }

usbdevlist=$(/usr/sbin/hwinfo --usb --short | awk '/dev\/sd/ {print $1}')
usbdevfulllist=$(/usr/sbin/hwinfo --usb --short | awk '/dev\/sd/ {print $0}')

	echo -e "\n\tLIST OF REMOVABLE DRIVES\n${usbdevfulllist}\n${sdfulllist}\n${cdromfulllist}\n\nSelect a device:"
	select opt in $usbdevlist ; do
		device=$(echo "$opt" | awk '{ print $1 }')
		break
	done

if [[ -z "$device" ]] ; then
	echo "No device was found."
	exit 0
fi

echo -e "\n\tSelect the image file.\n"
select file in *.iso *.img ; do
	echo -e "\n$file"
	break
done

size=$(ls -lh $file | awk '{ print $5 }' | sed -e 's/M//')

if echo "$size" | grep -q G ; then
	size="$(echo "$size" | sed -e 's/\.//' -e 's/G//')00"
fi

echo "Size is ${size}M"

if echo "$size" | grep -q K ; then
	echo "Out of range units"
	exit 1
fi

echo -e "\n\tCopy $file to $device?\n\n\tThe command will be:\n\tdd if=$file | pv -s ${size}M | dd of=$device bs=${blocksize}\n\n"
echo -e " Press ENTER to continue or ctrl-c to abort."
read -p " "

dd if="$file" | pv -s ${size}M | dd of="$device" bs="$blocksize"
sync

exit 0

If you don't need proprietary firmware, you can use the linux-libre kernel:
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/l … sh.en.html

You can install that in a daedalus system and upgrade to excalibur, or upgrade first then install the new kernel.
You could instead create a new excalibur system in a chroot, install linux-libre and then convert it to a disk image.

Here's an old discussion on installing devuan without dbus. Most of it still applies.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2158

The only nodbus iso I have available right now is the 32-bit refracta_13 (excalibur)
https://get.refracta.org/files/excalibu … 5_1239.iso

I put that on my 32-bit netbook and ended up adding dbus so I could install something. Poking around now, it looks like that something included audacious, abiword, firefox-esr, and yeah now I remember the real kicker - spacefm.    Relevant to the OP, I like to use spacefm with pmount for mounting removable disks.

@rations:  If you get calamares working, I'd like to know how to do it so I can try it again. Thanks.

Re: Simple Distro Kit - the SDK is for building the iso. Included in the iso is refractainstaller. Unlike refractasnapshot, which copies the running system to turn it into an iso file, SDK pulls packages from the repo and makes the iso. The difference is that the system made by SDK has never been booted.

Calamares and I had disagreements about my partitioning scheme.
Last time I tried it, it needed around 125mb of software to work. That was a few years ago.

I've never had to load any extra modules on an expert install. I see that screen and just OK it without selecting anything, and I always have the full selection of filesystem types. If just looking at that screen is enough, then I guess the instructions would be "Don't skip any sections or you'll be missing stuff."

Check the sha256sum on the iso to make sure it didn't get corrupted on download.

Update: The item is called "Load installer components from installation media" and it does load stuff you need even if you don't check any of the boxes. So I guess the advice would be "Load installer components if you want to install the system." And I think I might feel insulted if it said that.

Edit2: I just want to add that manual partitioning is available in both expert and regular install. I've noticed that some people think you have to choose expert to do manual partritioning. You don't.

When you found the link on your search results, did you notice the color showed that you've been here before?

1. I can't reproduce your problem. Both refractasnapshot and refractainstaller start from the menu or from root terminal. If you start it from a live session, you don't need to enter a password.

2. The first screen on both programs has a Help button. The first sentence of the second paragraph of the refractasnapshot help says to read the config file. In the config file is a setting for where the newly created file is put. There's also an option in the menu to edit the config file or the excludes list.

In case you missed all of those, there's a summary screen that tells you where to find the finished snapshot. (in /home/snapshot or wherever you set it if you edited the config file)

When you quote a post, you should use quote tags or at least use quotation marks and a citation so that readers can distinguish my words from yours.

Cool, it worked! (on excalibur) I had to look inside the DEBBUILD file to see what the dependencies were so I could install them first as root. My user is not in the sudo group. I couldn't find an option for easydeb to print the deps list. Did I miss that, or it doesn't exist?

Also, I found an old version of hot-babe from medibuntu on my hard drive. I installed that on chimaera and there are a couple of differences. The buntu version has a nudity warning in a debconf dialog so you can cancel the install if you think you might be offended; that's missing in the DUR build. And buntu puts it in the Accessories menu instead of the Games menu. Other than that, they seem to be the same. I might need to compile a kernel to get a more thorough test.

I don't know why a link to a git repo got nuked. I looked at it, but I couldn't figure out what to do with it. Are there instructions somewhere?

Neither can I.

Are you just complaining or are you looking for a solution?

How do you know that deps are missing and what do you mean by "missing"? To me, it looks like the dependencies are the same for gparted in ceres and excalibur.

Second question for you: Which packages do you think are missing?