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#1 Re: ARM Builds » excalibur image for original rpi? » 2026-01-06 23:36:16

jandrg

This little pi is just a home media server, so even though it's slooow when used interactively like you say, it's done its server job fine running daedalus for a couple years (from one of the 'trial' arm images that I now know are broken).  I just like pushing these things to see how far they can go and so I wanted to try excalibur on it.  But I'll just stick with daedalus and be happy -- better to have a working system that'll be outdated in a couple years than a broken one.

Thanks everyone for your help on this.

#2 Re: ARM Builds » excalibur image for original rpi? » 2026-01-04 23:21:30

jandrg

Thanks for the tips on the non-upgradeable Devuan images and the tested Debian images, @RedGreen925 .  There are no tested Trixie images for the 1b so I had to start with Bookworm -- which worked fine for migrating to Daedalus, but my Pi wouldn't boot (blank screen, no blinking of the activity LED on the Pi) after upgrading to Excalibur.  Similarly, upgrading the Bookworm image to Trixie also resulted in no booting.  I've done enough upgrades and migrations on other De*an machines that I don't think I did anything wrong.

On a whim I tried the Excalibur "trial" image for rpi that got posted a couple weeks ago, and it booted fine.  So I'll have to decide whether to stick with that (and so never upgrade the kernel without a complete reflash to a newer image) or stick with Daedalus. 

I'm way overthinking this, I realize. smile

#3 ARM Builds » excalibur image for original rpi? » 2025-12-11 22:37:00

jandrg
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I have an old Raspberry Pi model B that I'd like to run excalibur on, but I notice that the arm builds at arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryPi Latest Builds don't include excalibur builds for the original rpi.  Is there a reason for that?  I thought Debian and the kernel did still explicitly support the original Pi.

I could start with daedalus and upgrade of course (unless there's a reason it wouldn't work) but I figure it would be cleaner to just start with excalibur.

Thanks, thanks to everyone who works to make Devuan!  I also have it on ia32 (daedalus), ia64 amd64 (excalibur), and arm64 (old Samsung Chromebook Plus V1, soon to upgrade to excalibur) machines.

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