notify-send isn't working for me in openbox. The updates icon shows up in lxpanel, and when I click on it, the window comes up to ask me what to do. show-updates makes the list (I tested the script alone) but notify-send doesn't display. Is this normal, or am I missing something for openbox?

I'm testing on a laptop with 8G ram, and I'm alotting 4G to the VM. I can get to a shell and log in. (Note: it looks and acts better in virtualbox than in qemu.)  Couldn't get network working.

dmesg shows that it fails around the time it's finding usb devices.
I don't know what to do with the meminfo output. I don't think I'm running out of ram. I tried giving the VM 5G and got the same result.

The only free usb stick here is 2G. I tried it before I realized it was too small.

I'm using this iso:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/archiv … ia2019.iso

Questions:
- How do I re-open an app after I minimize its window? I can't find it anywhere.
- Is there a way to boot without putting the whole image into ram? I don't mind waiting a few seconds for an app to open.

Suggestions:
- Set the keyboard layout to match the language and/or put a keyboard switcher on the panel.
note: I was able to change the layout with 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' and it changed immediately, but only once. On subsequent boots, it did not change the layout.)

- Put the same options in the isolinux boot menu that are in the grub boot menu.

From what I can see, this is ascii with a 4.19 kernel. I checked a few packages, and they are from ascii. (libc6, util-linux). If you got to beowulf by upgrade, it looks like it was not complete.

It works here. I thought I'd have to type some commands when I told it Yes to upgrade, but I only had to enter the password. Nice work.

The PATH change was deliberate. Use 'su -' instead of 'su' and you'll get root's normal path.
You can do grub-install --bootloader-id=debian OR replace grub-efi-amd64-signed with grub-efi-amd64 (and make sure secure boot is turned off.)

If /boot is on its own unencrypted partition, you don't need the cryptodisk line in /etc/default/grub. You only need that if /boot is part of the encrypted volume. Make sure to run 'update-grub' in the chrooted target after you add the line.

If you're using gpt with legacy/bios boot, grub needs a special partition, at least 1MB size, unformatted and type ef02 in gdisk or bios_grub in gparted.

You don't have to give them personal information, and you'll only be storing something that you're already making publically available. It either has to be on somebody else's computer or on yours.

setnet.sh is in the live isos, not the installer isos.

I never use conv=sync when I dd a usb stick, so I don't think that was the problem. Sounds like the classic problem of "Computers don't do what you want; they do what you tell them to do."

Glad you got it working.

First thing I would do is look behind the furniture for an ethernet outlet.

If you tried the minimal-live iso, it has firmware already installed. Run setnet.sh to configure wireless.

I don't know anything about your model of laptop, but you might want to take a look at this to see if you have any of the same problems: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=15

XFCE gets pulseaudio through a chain of Recommends. It's not a hard dependency, and it's easy to avoid it. Just install without recommends. I haven't checked, but it's probably the same for the other desktops.

You would still need a /devuan repo to get the packages we modified, and you would probably need to pin all those packages to the devuan repo. I hope you're just thinking of this as an experiment.

You either need to install elogind or edit Xwrapper.config to allow X to run as root. See the section on startiing X from console in the release notes:
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt