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jandrg

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Registered: 2025-12-11

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excalibur image for original rpi?

I have an old Raspberry Pi model B that I'd like to run excalibur on, but I notice that the arm builds at arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryPi Latest Builds don't include excalibur builds for the original rpi.  Is there a reason for that?  I thought Debian and the kernel did still explicitly support the original Pi.

I could start with daedalus and upgrade of course (unless there's a reason it wouldn't work) but I figure it would be cleaner to just start with excalibur.

Thanks, thanks to everyone who works to make Devuan!  I also have it on ia32 (daedalus), ia64 amd64 (excalibur), and arm64 (old Samsung Chromebook Plus V1, soon to upgrade to excalibur) machines.

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RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

but I notice that the arm builds at arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryPi Latest Builds don't include excalibur builds for the original rpi.

Those are not real builds anyways they are made with a script that creates images that are broken by default and do not allow the kernel to be upgraded like on a proper system. If you want to be able fully upgrade the system so that actually follows a normal Debian/Devuan process install then you need to install the Trixie using Debian images then convert it to Devuan like I did when I figured out the broken nature of them files.

bai4Iej2need

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Registered: 2021-04-25

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

so what to do to get a real build ?
I need on for my rpi4, 4GB .

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broken by design :
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=958390

RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

so what to do to get a real build ?
I need on for my rpi4, 4GB .

Install the Debian Trixie image from their site, upgrading to latest packages as they are completely out of date. Then you follow the instructions to convert to Devuan from here.

https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … libur.html

Last edited by RedGreen925 (Yesterday 18:35:39)