The iso image contain pae kernel headers instead of non-pae. I reported this in the post above. (

Thanks for clarifying. I misunderstood. I filed a bug report so it can get fixed in the point-release.
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=487

fsmithred wrote:

The non-pae kernel is default for those with old machines. The linux-headers package is in the iso, but it does not get installed by default. That's standard for debian and consequently for devuan.
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I'm upset that the bug was not fixed in the final version of the disk Devuan GNU/Linux 3.0 (beowulf) i386 - desktop 20200526

I'm confused. What did you want to happen? What are you calling a bug?

The non-pae kernel is default for those with old machines. The linux-headers package is in the iso, but it does not get installed by default. That's standard for debian and consequently for devuan.
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I'm upset that the bug was not fixed in the final version of the disk Devuan GNU/Linux 3.0 (beowulf) i386 - desktop 20200526

The gtk installer doesn't boot, enters in a loop throwing xserver errors.
Fixed by specifying 'vga=788' at  the boot command line.

When using expert install, both gtk and text installers will, after detecting the iso, say something like:
'FIXME' iso mounted. The iso 'devuan-beowulf-..blah...iso' mounted at /dev/sda1 (FIXME).

So that's 2 FIXME entries somewhere.

Tested with beowulf dvd install image.

Other than that both text and gtk installers seem to work fine.

devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_netinstall-amd64.iso

To avoid going too far off topic here, I have described what I did at the end of this earlier thread.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=22226#p22226

Geoff

Lets hope it was just me.

You and me: two people

Seriuosly. I'm using Beowulf on a series of boxes and it perform very well in all of them.

Expert install is always my choice and then I use a bunch of bash installers to get to my desired status.

Did a quick test with the same cd. This time everything looked ok. I could see the modules (including filesytems) being loaded at installer startup. And they were present for the partitioning. Lets hope it was just me. Or if it was an error that happens from time to time. But that will be discovered soon if others have the same problem.

Thank you for your help
Lars H

Yes I did choose "expert" install first time. After the error I did a standard install, and everything there did work as expected. I am now restoring my /home. I do not have the downloaded iso file  any more. Downloaded just after a full install. I will try once more (without installing) to see if it is an on and off error.

I am sorry if I have made unnecessary "noise" here around the release. I report back soon if the problem reoccurs.

Have a nice day
Lars H

I just did a no-mirror install from devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_netinstall-amd64.iso onto a new btrfs partition.

Thank your for your answer

I have used this installer around 100 times over the years installing Debian. The step choosing the installer-components was simply not there (I might be wrong). But lt can be checked by starting the installer but not letting it commit anything. I will not try at the moment (pt. restoring my /home).

But a lot of other problems are gone since last install (Beowulf) beta 2. So it looks promising for a release.

Have a nice day

But I did first try the Expert Install. It went well until partitioning. I could only choose between fat, fat32 and ext2

I've been there. It was my fault because I skipped the step of the install secuence. May be your problem too?