I can't think of what you need to edit other than /etc/default/grub to enable os-prober so that when you run update-grub on your minimal partition, it will automatically add entries for all your other installed systems...   unless they have an encrypted root partition. In that case, you would need to create some menu entries in /etc/grub.d/40-custom. Write them to use the /vmlinuz and /initrd.img links in each of the systems so you don't have to keep changing it with every kernel upgrade.

Re: Vuu-do - I think greenjeans managed to remove all the hidden fat. He was ruthless. Boot the iso and get a list of installed packages to use as a guide for what to install. Dig into old posts to read about how it was made.

I think the last we heard about Star was in February.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=48432#p48432

115.8.0esr in excalibur works correctly. It has the "Firefox View" icon in the upper left.

128.3.1esr in the same excalibur also works correctly. This one has a folder icon in the upper left that says "View recent browsing..."

I tried the newer version both by closing the window and by killing firefox from a terminal. Both worked correctly.

@hdwolf:   THANKS!!!   I thought I fixed that a long time ago in refractasnapshot.

You said, "I used this command after doing that."

I ask, "What did you do before you ran that 'find' command?"  It should have worked.

If the problem is that these .service files can't do their job without systemd running, then the solution is to fork nvidia-suspend-common, the package that supplies these .service files. Someone needs to step forward to do the work and maintain it as updates come along. (It most likely will not be someone who is already packaging for devuan - there aren't enough of us.)

If you have pmount installed, spacefm will work without having to write a udev rule. I think it also works with udevil instead of pmount, but it's been years since I've tried it.

I checked to see if spacefm would open an encrypted external drive and it failed, but maybe I need to set some config for it. Alone, pmount in a terminal will ask for the passphrase for the encrpted volume.

One thing missing. Try it like this first.

apt-get --simulate purge <packages>

You should have gotten nm-tray and network-manager with lxqt. Make sure nm-tray is in your desktop startup apps.
Preferences -> LXQT Settings -> Session Settings -> Autostart

Did you install from the DVD without a network mirror? If so, you would be missing a lot of network related packages, even firefox.

Hey greenjeans, thanks for the offer. I've already made some excalibur desktop-live isos, but I haven't published any yet for a couple of reasons. For one thing they would be outdated by a hundred packages or so by the time I signed and uploaded them. Also, I wanted people to test the installer isos. Yeah, that second one doesn't count anymore. Hold that thought.

If you're really hot to start working on Excalibur Vuu-do there's always mini.iso or debootstrap. Find current anomalous debootstrap info for excalibur on this forum. You have to exclude a few things like cron-daemon-common and specify --with-merged-usr or else use mmdebstrap.

There are two ways to solve this. One way is to remove  intel-microcode to make the snapshot and then add it back after you install the system somewhere. The better solution is to use the version that's in excalibur/ceres:

https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … .0_all.deb
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … .0_all.deb

Download and install with dpkg -i refractasnapshot*.deb

The i686 kernels will certainly boot a 64-bit machine. What they won't do is boot in uefi mode. If your computer is set to use uefi you should be using one of the amd64 isos.