thanks again.

I prefer the live installer - it's a faster install. (I may be biased - I wrote it.) If you want the default xfce desktop, you can have it in about 10 minutes. If you want a more customized system, you may be better off with one of the installer isos.

If you use a gpt partition table on a system that's booting in bios (legacy) mode, you'll need to create a small, unformatted partition with bios_grub flag in gparted (or EF02 in gdisk). (Click on Help from inside the installer for more info about this.)

The warning about the version of yad might be obsolete. It's been working fine for me for a few months. My best guess is that something got fixed in gtk3 or in virtualbox.

rolfie

Disk dev/sda: 60 GiB, 64424509440 bytes, 125829120 sectors
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk indentifier: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Disk dev/loop0: 953.5 MiB, 999809024 bytes, 1952752 sectors

/dev/sr0: UUID= “2018-06-06-04-05-11-00” LABEL=“ISOIMAGE” TYPE=”iso9660” PTUUID=“xxxxxxx ”    PTTYPE=“dos”
/dev/loop0: TYPE=”squashfs”
/dev/sda: PTUUID=“xxxxxxxxxxx”  PTTYPE=”gpt”

my host system has,

Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
1      1049kB  313MB   312MB   primary   fat32           boot, esp
2      315MB   789GB   789GB   extended
5      315MB   13.5GB  13.2GB  logical   linux-swap(v1)
6      13.5GB  63.0GB  50.5GB  logical   ext4
7      50.5GB  789GB   738GB   logical   ext4

Do I then create a gpt or msdos partition table for the Guest OS (Devuan) because I wanted to create a separate /home? Now I come to partitioning and unsure what type of table to create.

Is that the same as  devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso 07-Jun-2018 00:18  1.0G  which I'm using from here? https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr … ktop-live/

What does that one do easier/better?

The -live and netinst use different installers.

The -live isos use the refractainstaller which rsyncs the running system to your specified location.

The netinst isos use the classic debian-installer which is documented here:
https://devuan.org/os/documentation/ins … evuan.html

and here for the graphic install:
https://devuan.org/os/documentation/ins … stall.html

Description of the Devuan isos can be found in the ISO Guide section of the devuan.org index page

Why don't you make it easy on yourself and use one of the normal net/CD/DVD-ASCII-isos?

This works fine.

rolfie

Is that the same as  devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso 07-Jun-2018 00:18  1.0G  which I'm using from here? https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr … ktop-live/

What does that one do easier/better?

This works fine.

rolfie

I am launching from the desktop.
Pop-ups: choose su or sudo, I choose su then I get the yad refractainstaller popup. I think I'll bypass the desktop launch and try the cli this time.

thanks again.

Sounds like you're on your way!  Let us know how it works out.  FWIW, I use the cli version also.  We'll be adding a page with screenshots for a cli install too.

thanks again.

Note: You can also launch the cli installer as root with refractainstaller and the graphical one with refractainstaller-yad.

There was also an issue with certain yad versions shoving the installer dialogues off-screen so it might just be that you have an older version of yad and need to upgrade.

When doing so, I got a notice that if I'm using yad 0.38 then it may be best to use the refracta installer in root. I just want to install the thing.

I downloaded the current iso via nluug and then found this not long ago https://devuan.org/os/documentation/install Virtual Machines section.

So based on, https://devuan.org/os/documentation/install Virtual Machines sections, this is a different iso used for VM only and I shouldn't have been using the one from the downloads page?

I did read the release notes, still reading them.  For me, for the moment, I'm just  trying to parse out which instructions to really follow from all the different stuff I've been reading on how to install devascii from a VM.

Thanks for this new documentation link.

This beta is a WIP but very close to finished: https://beta.devuan.org/os/documentatio … e-gui.html.  I will be making some changes later today.

Also please read the RELEASE NOTES on the desktop if you have not already done so

I've read the install guides from devuan.org and other info from google.com yet I am not understanding what the next steps are. Is there not a straightforward way to do this install?

True, I am sort of still figuring my way through Linux but would like to get some direction if you' all do not mind.

thanks.