Yes. That's what I would do.

That does not surprise me.

NM is useless bloat with a vanilla ethernet connection. All it adds are bugs. IMO.

NetworkManager will ignore anything in /etc/network/interfaces. Remove eth0 from that file if you want to use NM with it.

EDIT: /etc/network/interfaces works via ifupdown & /etc/init.d/networking.

You could assign Debian repositories a pin value of 100 so they are treated as backports: only installed if specifically targetted but kept upgraded from there in future.

Something like

Package: *
Pin: origin "deb.debian.org"
Pin-Priority: 100

And install with

# apt install -t bullseye $package

Version 7.2-1 of both oksh and loksh are now available. I've not managed to move the loksh binary yet but it should still work with non-usrmerged systems. Please post here if it doesn't.

The captchas are the thin end of a wedge: the same technique will also work with, for example, Netflix so you can wave goodbye to watching that on anything other than an Approved Platform.

The 2021-08-18 firmware tag was packaged by Debian on 2021-08-24: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/ … _changelog

It is important to remember that Debian & Devuan are free operating systems. As such, the contrib & non-free repository components are not considered to be part of the official release and any packages from there are supplied purely as a convenience to users on a best effort basis.

The non-free firmware packages have been lagging behind for a while now, even in sid. They should catch up for the bookworm release though. Hopefully.

The date given for the firmware packages reflects the time of the upstream git tag from which the package is built.

http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/dists/chim … ler/amd64/

Hello, my compliments on your website, it is utterly gorgeous. Consider your style sheet stolen

NetbootCD looks wonderful, thanks for sharing this.

I had a quick look through nbscript.sh and I noticed it's using the main pkgmaster.devuan.org server — it would be much better if you could replace that with the recommended deb.devuan.org redirector. It will save a lot of load on the servers. Thanks in advance.

Also, have you considered this method of assigning variables from text file contents:

read VARIABLE < /path/to/file

I find this more elegant than the VARIABLE=$(cat /path/to/file) used in the script but I suppose tastes differ :-)

You might want to run the whole script through https://www.shellcheck.net/ because it shows a number of issues.

Finally did you know that whiptail(1) can do almost everything that dialog can but it's much lighter and smaller? I prefer it myself anyway.

I would try nouveau. Bloody NVIDIA.

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