Thanks again!
Tom

apt-get install base-files=12.4devuan3

apt-get will probably call it "downgrading" but that's nothing to worry about.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6652

The only issue I ran into was that, apparently because that Bookworm install had interface names of enX0/enX1 and Daedalus has eth0/eth1 (as we actually wanted) the network wasn't configured automatically...so I had to create the interfaces file manually. All that worked fine.

Just today we noticed that there was no /etc/devuan_release file, and it's because the base-files is from Debian. Here's the apt policy for that, and I don't quite understand it:

apt policy base-files
base-files:
  Installed: 12.4+deb12u4
  Candidate: 12.4+deb12u4
  Version table:
 *** 12.4+deb12u4 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     12.4devuan3 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages

Clearly that 12.4devuan3 from the devuan repo is the one I want. What on earth is that first one that shows /var/lib/dpkg/status instead of repo information? Not getting that at all. I've found a similar issue posted here but nothing in that helped.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

EDIT: OK. I've at least found out that that /var/lib/dpkg/status means that it's installed but that it doesn't know the repository. I'm still trying to figure out how to get the proper version installed.

Tom