Your link shows that so far, it's only fixed in sid. That means it's also fixed in ceres. It's only been about a week, so I guess the fix will be moving down to testing and stable soon. Whenever that happens in debian, it will happen in devuan a minute or two later. I hope they fix it in oldstable, too.

aptitude -t sid search linux-image-4.14
p   linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64                           - Linux 4.14 for 64-bit PCs

aptitude show linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64
Package: linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64      
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 4.14.2-1

apt-cache policy linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64
linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.14.2-1
  Version table:
     4.14.2-1 0
        100 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ceres/main amd64 Packages
         10 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages

Don't use debian mirrors in your sources.list (or in synaptic). Only use devuan.
Make sure you have non-free repos enabled.
Update (Reload? I forget what it says in synaptic)
Install firmware-iwlwifi

That one usually works for me without a reboot. Usually.

I've heard a few other people who had trouble with rufus. Try rawrite:
http://www.netbsd.org/~martin/rawrite32/

The wireless firmware package that you need is already installed in the live isos. What error message did you get, and what did you do to get that message?

Can you use a wire for the install instead of wireless? Sometimes it's easier to set up the wireless after you get the system installed.

I just ran into this doing a debootstrap install of ascii. Here's a way around it. The needed packages are in ascii-proposed. When they move into the main ascii repo, this will no longer be a problem.

In chroot: add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list (note that it's /devuan not /merged like the others.)

deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ ascii-proposed main

Then run

apt-get update
apt-get -t ascii-proposed install util-linux libfdisk1

Then you can install other things. I have no idea what's missing in your system now. I had to do the above before I could install the kernel. You probably need to run upgrade and dist-upgrade again, maybe apt --fix-missing, or maybe you'll get other instructions.

I have a partial answer to the original dilemma. I made a live usb of devuan ascii (and udev), with persistence. There's no 70-persistent-net.rules in the live isos by design, and there's none in my ascii anyway. Normally (jessie and older) with persistence, the one that gets created at boot sticks around, and you have to either delete it or change your settings to eth1, 2... or wlan1, 2 (I think I've gone up to 8 in the past.)

This particular system has wicd on it, and there are settings for default wired and wireless interfaces. They're set to eth0 and wlan0. I added net.ifnames=0 so that the old names will be used.

Booted one laptop and was automatically connected with the wire. Wicd saw the nearby wireless signals.
Booted another laptop and was automatically connected. Wicd worked, too.
In both cases, the only interfaces were eth0 and wlan0. They did not increment.

Explanation: Hand-waving-argument, magic. I don't know. But I think you'll be ok when you move your system to different hardware.

Bug me in a couple of weeks to see if I tried it with eudev yet.

Huh? What's missing? What extra stuff is disturbing you? I never noticed a difference.

To enable multi-arch:

dpkg --add-architecture i386

Then you should be able to install the i386 versions of packages.

It's safer if you use codenames. Use "jessie" instead of "stable" and "ascii" rather than "testing." When ascii becomes the stable release, you can change sources.list to say "ascii" instead of "jessie." That way, you get to decide when you do the dist-upgrade instead of running into it when it happens.

I know we're drifting off topic here, but this is relevant to the drift and potentially very important:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/11/20 … -keystroke

@golinux: I like the greens better than the roots.

All the installer isos must be used with auto.mirror.devuan.org (or some-country-code.mirror.devuan.org or packages.devuan.org). They do not have the signing key for amprolla3 (pkgmaster.devuan.org). If/when there's a point-release of jessie, that situation will be remedied.

Instructions for putting the image on the device are in the README.txt found in the same directory as the images. But I will assume that you already know how to do that, because you did it with Debian. Say a little more about what you did and what doesn't work, and maybe someone will have a solution.

'update-rc.d remove' will remove the symlinks. You do not need to remove the init script. I'm not sure if the symlinks will be regererated with normal updates, but. I just checked, and wicd is still installed here and turned off since I installed the system almost two years ago.

Here's a bug report. I guess you can ignore the warning.
https://lists.debian.org/deity/2015/10/msg00085.html

Check your version of apt. It's supposed to be fixed in 1.1. Jessie has 1.0.9 and ascii should have 1.4.

dpkg -l apt