When booting past expanding the initramfs, you should see a message about init 2.88 starting and two lines deeper openrc 0.23 starting

rolfie

How did you select openrc?

Read https://devuan.org/os/.

That will not help on its own.

You need to:
1.) Modify your sources list to ASCII repository
2.) apt update
3.) apt upgrade
4.) apt dist-upgrade

Search the web for instructions how to update from release to a later release.

Regards, Rolf

Addition: Mate shows a popup telling me:

Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sr0: command-line "mount"/Media/cdrom0" exitet with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing code page or helper program, or other error. 

There is a hint to look into syslog, or dmesg, but there is no entry present.

Writing under Win7 works.

Rolf

Have successfully used devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1.iso from one of the mirrors listed on https://devuan.org/get-devuan, also the CD or the netinstall version, cannot complain about the installer, it worked. There is no bug. You may also load the file directly from https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/installer-iso/.

Make sure your download is fine by checking the hash.

You say you got a newer PC. I would assume that PC has an EFI bios. Make sure you boot the DVD in the same mode the bios is set up, i.e. normally if the bios is set to CSM mode, or by boot override in EFI mode.

Good luck, Rolf

Well, I have made the experience that I should always removed all other media with OS installations and all USB sticks if I want a clean install. grub always gave me issues when I forgot to follow that rule.

Rolf

Works fine on my Beowulf x64 system. Look at entry #7, filename to patch is /lib/cryptsetup/cryptdisks-functions. Shutdown is really fast.

Rolf

The script has something that looks to me like a LSB header, but I lack the knowledge to determine if it is correct. Looks like it is working.

Thanks, rc-update add webmin default was needed to add webmin to the list. After a reboot the service is present now.

I found a second way to get it working: add  sh /etc/init.d/webmin start @reboot to the crontab. Also does the job.

I now do a power off and restart from there to check if it still is working.

Thanks you for your feedback, Rolf

Some more background info: I have configured Webmin to a different port. The ss command does not show anything, no matter if Webmin is running or not.

But I think I know whats going on: Webmin isn't started by default. sh /etc/init.d/webmin start works and starts the service, then I can talk to the server. And I checked the setting that should start Webmin during boot. After a reboot again there is no access, running the init.d script enables everything again.

So the issue is with the start of Webmin during boot of the server. Looks like this does not work.

The server runs with openrc. Maybe the issue is there? What do I need to check?

Thanks, Rolf

@krauser: give ASCII a try, its Stretch without systemd. If you want to install external packages that are available for Debian use the Stretch package and it works.

Rolf

Everything in a small home network segment. Via ssh with putty worked, ping worked, did not try to go out from the fileserver to one of my clients.

Anyhow, its solved now.

Thanks for your input, Rolf