Pedro, you probably don't want to read this.

mckaygerhard wrote:

Either you don't know what you are talking about or you are deliberately spreading misinformation. I think it's the latter. You said that Debian offers 7 years of support. That is simply not true.

You don't know what goes on here. You just come by every now and then to throw shit on the project. Are you getting paid to do this? I don't have the time or desire to track down and identify all your alternate "facts". So I now have to assume that everything you say is false.

I've never heard of this before. Does Debian have a secret server for companies that want the extra two years of support? How does one go about getting that? Or is it only systemd that they support for the extra two years? That would explain why it's not in Devuan.

Do you even know how Devuan gets its packages? Have you heard of amprolla?

FYI: 99% of packages in the Devuan repository are not in the Devuan repository. When you understand that, you will have attained some level of enlightenment.

I've never played with arm images, so I guess that's why this problem seems so foreign to me. Please say exactly which iso or image you used. If you'd like, I could move this thread to the arm section of the forum where it might get more attention (from someone who knows more about arm than I do).

When I suggested setting up static ip for the pi, I meant in /etc/network/interfaces. Setting it up on an external device won't do anything to bring up the interface, it will only allow it to have an address when it asks for one. Is there anything other than the loopback entry in the interfaces file?

dpkg -l |egrep "network-manager|connman|wicd|ceni"

will tell if one of those is installed.

Refractainstaller runs dpkg-reconfigure in the running live system, and then the changes get copied along with the rest of the system. I'm not sure how devuan/debian installer does it. I think it just stores the values and edits the target file, but it's also possible it does it in a chroot. Either way, I don't know why the two installers would give different results.

New torrent files:
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf.torrent
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii.torrent

Magnet link

We're using these trackers now:
udp://9.rarbg.me:2710
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337
udp://tracker.cyberia.is:6969

Yes, you could add a boot paramater instead of removing that live-config script. To test on the fly, press TAB at the isolinux boot menu or 'e' at the grub boot menu to edit the boot command.

To change the templates for the boot menus, so you don't have to edit them on every build, look in /usr/lib/refractasnapshot

If there's a way to tell the computer to boot from usb, then it should ignore any bootloaders on the hard drive.

Boot loop usually means kernel and initramfs are missing. Mount the iso and look inside the live folder. There should be filesystem.squashf along with kernel and initramfs. And if the file names are different, make sure the boot menu has the right names.

I have no idea what would do that.

Look in /var/log/apt/history.log to see what really got installed or removed.

If you're using grub-efi-amd64-signed and have ID=devuan in /etc/os-release, you'll boot to a grub prompt instead of a boot menu. That's because grub will expect the signed bootloader to be found under /boot/efi/EFI/debian, but your bootloader will be in /boot/efi/EFI/devuan instead.

Some third-party software that expects to see debian might complain or refuse to install. I don't have an example.

There's also /etc/issue, which is in most linux distros.

You missed one option:

4. Ignore the question and continue. The driver will be installed automatically unless you choose expert install and exclude non-free software.

If we remove that question, then those people who need certain broadcom firmware will be stuck.

I can confirm that iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode is in firmware-iwlwifi in jessie, beowulf and chimaera.

1. On devuan you have to edit /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn to get sound.
On Refracta, that's not an option because pulseaudio is not installed. Sound works out of the box in most cases.  What does aplay -l show? Is the hardware too new for the debian kernel?

2. Not enough info to diagnose the problem. Check the log. Maybe delete the work directory if you're saving it between runs. Maybe something got mangled there and it's not getting cleard on subsequent runs.

In English, the name changed from Preferred Applications to Default Applications, and in the Settings manager, it got moved from the Personal section to the System section.

I had to upgrade my ceres to get 4.16 and xfce4-settings was held back to 4.14. At that point, Preferred applications was missing, but I don't know if Default applications was there. I upgraded xfce4-settings to 4.16 and restarted the destkop before I noticed it.