I didn't think you would need to use mknod. Since there was no actual device for /dev/sdc, I would expect that there was no /dev/sdc in the filesystem until you made it. I only see as many devices listed as actually exist on my systems. Those get created by udev at boot or when you plug in a removable drive.

I guess you now have a file at /dev/sdc that holds the contents of "a-linux-distro".  If there is no disk /dev/sdc, you can delete the file.

rolfie, I got results similar to yours, except I'm the other side of UTC, so mine have '-' instead of '+'. Don't feel bad about being confused. I've been confused by hwclock for years, so I stay away from it. I set it to UTC and use ntp or ntpdate to keep the right time.

The e1000e driver is in my ascii - it's in the kernel configs for 4.9.0-9 and 4.9.0-11. I don't know why you folks aren't seeing it. On my Thinkpad T420, lsmod shows that it's loaded.

If I boot devuan_ascii_2.1_amd64_netinstall.iso I get an ethernet connection on the Thinkpad, and lsmod shows that e1000e is loaded. This installer iso has 4.9.0-11.

Make sure os-prober is installed and run update-grub and it should create boot entries for the other linux systems.

Note: If the other systems are encrypted, update-grub will not see them. In that case, create menuentries for them in /etc/grub.d/40_custom, and then run update-grub.

The other standard suggestion in this case is to either use one network manager or configure in /etc/network/interfaces. Not both. If it's not a laptop that travels around to different networks, you may as well ditch both network managers.

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image*.deb

I think the only power you have is to delete your own posts. Please don't.

Looks to me like the discussion is back on track, even if it's not the original track. And the last few posts have new information. It should be ok. Things usually have a way of settling themselves down.

Not all mirrors support https. If you use deb.devuan.org it may redirect you to an http mirror or an https mirror, so it will sometimes fail.

To use https, select a mirror that supports https and use that in your sources.list

Here's a list of package mirrors. Each entry shows which protocols are supported:
http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt

It doesn't always happen in a few hours. Be patient. It's coming.

Wow. It's fixed. New version should appear in repo within a few hours.

Thanks for reporting.

Like I said, it's been abandoned. We don't have an official procedure for becoming a maintainer, but you could make a personal project at git.devuan.org, make the necessary additions to the code, tell people about it here or mailing list or IRC, maybe make packages for people to test and use. And then maybe your changes will be brought into the repo.

One thing we do want from anyone who chooses to maintain a package is that you stick with it. It's no good if a package gets into the repo and then nobody updates it when it needs updating.

My personal vision for the sanity package would be to have a debconf dialog that listed all the sane changes and let you pick which ones you wanted. Obviously, there would need to be more than just one item on the list. And I don't want to do the work. I'd rather live without it than have to maintain it.

Another way to do it is with dpkg-divert, which will make a package that replaces a config file in another package. And it tells the package manager what's going on, so your custom changes don't get replaced during an upgrade.  Do you know what file in firefox stores the url for the dns server? (Knowing ff, it's probably a binary file.)