Download unofficial non-free image of Debian and convert it installed to Devuan.
Can't confirm that. The modprobe -i nvidia-current error in /var/log/dmesg is present in both cases, migration with installed nvidia drivers and devuan installation.
But, does it do something at all?
lsmod says nvidia modules are loaded, I' just ignoring it.
Has the odd problem of permanently incomplete install of proprietary video drivers been solved in chimaera? Or will I have to go back to those threads about elaborate extra steps to complete the installation?
Download unofficial non-free image of Debian and convert it installed to Devuan. There is always a choise.
]]>[ 0.862162] udevd[118]: Error running install command 'modprobe -i nvidia-current ' for module nvidia: retcode 1
Looks like the nVidia drivers just cannot be properly installed in Devuan. But the system does run, so at least it's a minor error, not a system ruining disaster.
]]>at boot I go the recovery route, and edit the "linux" line to say... (check for conflicts)
vga=794 modeset.nouveau=0
The main trick is to have all the dependants installed, edit the module blacklist and boot the machine without the nouveau module loading before the install.
]]>Did you try the fix given at the end of the thread? Doesn't seem very "elaborate" to me... EDIT: drama queen.
]]>Has the odd problem of permanently incomplete install of proprietary video drivers been solved in chimaera?
Debian is over 20 years old now and has never, in all that time, included any proprietary video drivers in an official release. What makes you think that will change any time soon? And why do you describe it as "odd"? Supplying proprietary drivers is expressly forbidden by Debian's Social Contract.
]]>It was late at night when I did this, so I didn't do all my usual customizations yet. Now I'm preparing to do all the customization, such as installing the nVidia drivers. Has the odd problem of permanently incomplete install of proprietary video drivers been solved in chimaera? Or will I have to go back to those threads about elaborate extra steps to complete the installation?
]]>But that 'ventoy' utility looks very interesting. Gonna have to try that out.
]]>I think @Camtaf is talking about desktop-live, which is a different alternative that many people prefer.
Yes, sorry, both 'live' versions have been updated, & I assumed that the 'desktop' would have been too, 'my bad', as some say.
]]>I think @Camtaf is talking about desktop-live, which is a different alternative that many people prefer.
]]>For instance use ctrl-alt-f2 to enter a shell at vt2, then set up a receiver
nc -l -p 10000 > capture.log
on another machine, say 10.0.0.5, and copy over with
nc -w 2 10.0.0.5 10000 < /var/log/syslog
from the installer shell to the receiver on that other machine.
The ISO is a s.c hybrid ISO that presents itself both as a CDROM and as a disk image with 2 partitions where the first is a CDROM and the second is a FAT filesystem (for UEFI boot). The partition block ranges overlap of course, as the FAT filesystem is in fact an image file within the CDROM, but the bios is not clever enough to worry about that.
In any case, the log file should give some lead to why the installer cannot find the CDROM.
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