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Re: Excalibur netinstall on blank iron failed

dummy@example.com (beate) — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:55:10 +0000

Yes, i think Your asssumption is correct.

Re: Excalibur netinstall on blank iron failed

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:03:52 +0000

beate wrote:

partitioning: the installer did offer me only fat filesystems and ext2 ????
(i am writing this on a machine grown of ASCII from an old debian using XFS partitions, which means i am really surprised)

I am pretty sure you are using the expert mode and skipped the step thats called "Load installer components from installation media". What you are describing is the typical symptom for that oversight. I thought though that was fixed, I must make a test to confirm.

beate wrote:

the installer did not give me the option to install a boot manager

Maybe also due to the first problem? I have done a few installs from the officially released netinstall 6.0.0 and they worked fine.

Make sure your netinstall download is ok, checksum is correct, and that is from an offcial Devuan mirror.

Excalibur netinstall on blank iron failed

dummy@example.com (beate) — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:42:17 +0000

Hi,

i just gave up on Excalibur netinstall. On a 250 GB SSD.

Issues:

partitioning: the installer did offer me only fat filesystems and ext2 ????
(i am writing this on a machine grown of ASCII from an old debian using XFS partitions, which means i am really surprised)

the installer did not give me the option to install a boot manager

So i could not proceed.

mhmm. And now? Should i go to back do some minimal daedalus or chimaera install and upgrade from there?

(More seriously i am currently giving exegnulinux a try, but i would of course like to understand whats going on)