It should be bootable from a usb stick. Image the stick with dd like you would with any other isohybrid. That's what isohdpfx.bin is for. What are you getting when you try to boot the usb?

Sorry, I'm in a bit of a hurry, so I didn't read it all. Here's what we have in devuan. You should not use debian repositories to pull packages. You could get some unexpected surprises, and I'm talking about the unpleasant kind.

$ apt-cache policy torbrowser-launcher 
torbrowser-launcher:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.1.9-1+deb8u3
  Version table:
     0.2.7-2 0
        100 http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ ceres/contrib amd64 Packages
     0.2.6-2~bpo8+1 0
        200 http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-backports/contrib amd64 Packages
     0.1.9-1+deb8u3 0
        500 http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie/contrib amd64 Packages

If you're in jessie and want the version from backports,

apt-get -t jessie-backports install torbrowser-launcher

I don't know why it's not in ascii. I would either try the one from jessie-backports or temporarily add ceres sources and pull it from there. More likely, I would just go to the tor site, download the latest version and unpack it in my home directory.

Does it say what version of fsck it's using? Make sure it's the version in devuan and not the version in mint. Make sure the grub menu entry is pointing to the correct root.

You're getting messages to upgrade e2fsck when you run the installer? Which installer iso and installation method are you using?

If you can get back to the installation that worked but didn't have wifi, that's a known problem and is pretty easy to fix.

I can tell that I will be giving away the links to Pete's posts to a lot of people. Thanks for that.

Some of the wireless firmware is in contrib, so that might need to be added to the sources along with non-free.

That should have worked. Was there an error message?

It seems odd that softpedia labels that iso as beta. It's 8.3.

sha256sum

2b9a39c0e4bbee600607ef24053a65685282d4b47c8a6b76418020e59646ad8e  refracta8.3_xfce_amd64-20170305_0250.iso

Here's where I put my isos (and .asc files if you want to check the signature.)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refrac … isohybrid/

Stretch and ascii have the same version of hardinfo: 0.5.1-1.5+b3 0 
Ceres has 0.5.1+git20170620-1.   I did not check sid.
What version are you looking for? If you want something that's newer than what ceres/sid has, you probably need to wait until debian brings it into sid, and then it can be backported to ascii.  We use the same version of hardinfo that's in debian. The package did not need to be devuanized.

There are a couple of solutions here. I tried the usrchg script, and it works.
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=8686

ifconfig is in the net-tools package

If you want wlan0 and eth0 instead of what you have for interface names, add 'net.ifnames=0' to the linux line of your boot menu.

I don't know much about it. If I were going to install trinity, I'd use the instructions here -
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_ … structions

Yeah, you're going to need dbus with a full desktop environment. TDE shouldn't be using any gtk. It uses qt. Maybe q4OS uses it for some gtk apps? (I don't know what q4OS includes).

Not much response in this thread, but I think this is going to make a lot of people happy. Thanks!

Edit: I can confirm that it works. I had some trouble with dconf-editor - the middle value would not change. Problem was that I was in xfce with a clearlooks-phenix theme, and the checkbox at the bottom of the window was missing. The other two values did change. Then I repeated it in cinnamon and was able to save the change.

I didn't add the applet, so I don't have suspend and hibernate, but log out, reboot and shutdown are there.

The other problem with it is that it's no good for backing up large amounts of data. The iso size limit is 4GiB. I don't even call it a backup system.

I just use rsync for backup. I tried grsync, but I could never figure out exactly what it was going to do. (when you tell it to backup foo, does it backup foo/ or foo?)