What does "did nothing" mean? How did you attempt to do the dist-upgrade? I did one the day before you tried, and it worked normally.

Something like this should work:
Change sources from chimaera to daedalus, then update and upgrade.

sed -i 's/chimaera/daedalus/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt upgrade
apt dist-upgrade

In debian/devuan, runit uses the sysvinit scripts by default, because there aren't run scripts for a lot of services. The gettys and a couple other things will use run scripts by default. Others are supplied by the runit-services package.

Note that there are some differences from void in the directories that are used for runit. I don't recall exactly what the differences are, but you'll figure it out.

Look for posts by Lorenzo on this forum for useful information. He's the debian maintainer for runit.

Ceres (Sid) never freezes, but the rate of new packages slows down right before a release. That's because everyone is working on finishing the next release. When it's released, then people start working on new packages again and the unstable branch gets faster changes.

For zoom, I use chromium browser. If you have a link to a zoom meeting, ignore all the suggestions to install zoom and scroll to the bottom of the page to enter the meeting in your web browser.

For skype, you need to use a third-party package (thanks, microsoft!). Use the package for the corresponding version of debian. (bullseye = chimaera, bookworm = daedalus)
Is skype not installable in gnuinos? I have no idea how the libre kernel handles that.

I didn't mention it, but another option is to use one of the installer isos instead of a live iso. The installer isos use the debian-installer (modified for devuan) that you may be more accustomed to. That one will let you select a partition for home and not format it, so you can re-use your files.

Either way, you should have all your files backed up somewhere before installing.

If you installed from a live-iso, see if this file exists:

ls -l /usr/sbin/anacron.orig.anacron

If it does, run the following (as root): 

rm /usr/sbin/anacron
dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/sbin/anacron

No, that's not the case at all. Devuan users have to wait a few hours after debian posts updates. The actual time it takes for the mirrors to update varies, but I think the longest is four hours.

The part that might not be ready is the installer isos and live isos. Those have to be put together and all the pieces might not be done today. I think we finished writing the release docs, but I'm not certain. Daedalus itself is ready. You can take your chances installing it from one of the new isos that might still have some bugs, or you can do a minimal install of chimaera and upgrade to daedalus, or if you already have chimaera, you can upgrade to daedalus.

If you use one of the new isos and find some bugs, you could let us know so we can fix it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right about the delay. You can also run into problems if the server goes down while the client still has the share mounted. (I just did that to myself about an hour ago.)

I find it better to use autofs, which will mount the share when you try to use it.

In the installed system, you should be able to set language and keyboard by running (as root or with sudo)

dpkg-reconfigure locales
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

You can configure more than one language and keyboard and choose which one is the default.

If you want to change the language and keyboard when you boot a live-CD or live-USB, edit the  boot command to add

locales=de_DE.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=de

  Note: To access the boot command at the boot menu, press TAB if you booted legacy bios or press e if you booted UEFI.

It looks like you did things in the right order. When I do installs like that, it sometimes takes me a few tries to get it right.
Check /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab, /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I think something is aiming for the wrong target.

If you want encryption and you want a swap partition, it's easier to do it with encrypted lvm. Then the OS partition(s) and swap will all be part of the encrypted volume. If you just want a single partition, you could use a swap file.

As an example, I use a 256MB swapfile on a laptop. None of that is being used at the moment. On my desktop machine I have a 1GB swapfile, and 16 MB of that are in use. On a server that runs radio automation software (constantly playing music from a playlist) that has LVM and RAID, the 256MB swapfile is about half full. These machines have 6 or 8 GB RAM.

Note: Encryption only works when the computer is turned off. It's useful in case someone steals your computer or you have to send the hard drive out for replacement or repair.

If you're worried about writes to the  ssd, you could put the swap on one or both of the spinning disks. You would need to make the RAID from partitions instead of the whole drive, to leave room for a swap partition. Oh, I suppose you could put a swapfile inside the RAID. That might be easier. Then you don't need to make the extra partition.

This one is a few days old. It's for ceres, but there should be a screen early in the install that asks what suite you want. You might need to choose expert install to get that question.
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … s/netboot/

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