Why not use EFI?

Best I ask now than later ...

Cool.

I'm going to abort the install and begin from scratch.

This is what I'm looking at ...

It was initially allowing me to make those changes but I made an error and couldn't return to the menu I needed.

It was late so I powered down - this morning it prompted for an Intel Raid setup (I presume a hardware Raid) and that seemed good.

Now I can't find any menu that will allow me to make granular partition changes.

Could us use gparted to get this done?

During the reinstall I'm confused about LVM & Raid1 .

This is what is there ...

sudo modprobe e1000e

generates no response - just back to the prompt.

david1@devuan1:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether d8:9e:f3:48:81:16 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.50.1/24 brd 192.168.50.255 scope global noprefixroute eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
david1@devuan1:~$ 

dmesg | grep e1000e

generates pages of this:

[13436.600935] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[13436.600937] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[13444.514949] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[13444.514955] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[13452.430943] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[13452.430948] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[13460.342929] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[13460.342935] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[13468.293947] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[13468.293953] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[13476.205972] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[13476.205973] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[13484.108979] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[13484.108981] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[13492.033943] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None

root@devuan1:/home/david1# modprobe e1000e
bash: modprobe: command not found
root@devuan1:/home/david1# 

Thanks for the info - nothing there helped. It simply refuses to recognize the Intel nic.

From root

ip link set etho up

doesn't error, it's just ignored.

Pinging the router errors "Network is unreachable"

The only thing I can think of is that the install may have glitched.

The only two things I spot are:

1. "Direct firmware load for i915/kb_dmc_ver1_04.bin failed with error -2 (Disabling runtime power management.)"
2. Then, a little further down, about 3 pages of NIC link up and down.

EDIT:

Note: There's a discussion about the drivers and alternatives here - if anyone can see a way to get this to work with Devuan.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1067564 … untu-16-04

It took 3 different pc's but finally got the DVD to burn with the server iso.

I seem to have missed a step (no root file system) after getting Raid 1, etc. configured, so it's back to square one and start over.

At least some progress ...

EDIT: Started from the beginning ...

At the Partition disks step should I use "Guided - use the largest continuous free space"  or go with "Manual" in order to be sure to have room for a root file system?

Devuan doesn't recognize the Intel nic - so I have to get Devuan installed before I can update the driver.

I guess it's CDs ... old school.

EDIT: Is there a reason that 4 CD's must be used rather than one USB stick?

EDIT2: I need all of these?

devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_cd2.iso                 12-Oct-2021 11:55    543M
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_cd3.iso                 12-Oct-2021 12:03    573M
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_cd4.iso                 12-Oct-2021 12:12    630M
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_desktop.iso             12-Oct-2021 11:45      3G
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_netinstall.iso          12-Oct-2021 10:50    405M
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_server.iso              12-Oct-2021 11:02    691M
devuan_chimaera_4.1_0_i386_pool1.iso               15-Feb-2022 01:26      5G

These on CD 1 - the rest on consecutive CD's?

devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_desktop.iso             12-Oct-2021 11:45      3G
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_netinstall.iso          12-Oct-2021 10:50    405M
devuan_chimaera_4.1_0_i386_pool1.iso               15-Feb-2022 01:26      5G

Since I'm setting up a server, what of this one?
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_server.iso              12-Oct-2021 11:02    691M