When you install Daedalus with KDE, you will get a working system. No need to fumble, the installation takes care for replacements for the banned packages. Well, I am not a KDE user, but I have tried once Devuan/KDE in a VM, works.
I am not aware about any GUI tool to manage sysvinit, what for? Its set during the installation, and normally you do not need to change anything.
On Mate/Cinnamon you get a log file viewer as GUI tool. I would assume something like that is also available for KDE.
I have installed PA on my workstation, my laptop is using pipewire. Both do the job.

Look at this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3331

Look at the boot messages or check the syslog for the phrase "missing firmware".

BTW, here is a tutorial: https://tutorialforlinux.com/2021/06/15 … tallation/

That talks about firmware. You will need to enable non-free in Chimaera's sources.list.

Thanks, that did the job. Did run the command on Tuesday, can't remember what the output was (may be none?), too many things going on here. When checking today I saw that all logs referenced in the conf have new date stamps and are much smaller now.

Maybe I will add that to my cron jobs to be run on each first day of the month.

Yes, cron is installed and working. I am using it for startup cron job @reboot. There is the logrotate entry in /etc/cron.daily.

Please note: non-free-firmware is relevant from Bookworm/Daedalus onward.

The answer is valid for Debian and Devuan: use manual partitioning. Assign the /home to the drive in exsistance, and make sure that you do not format that drive. There is a setting for that.

EDITH: Warning: this procedure works fine with the standard installers as found on the netinstall, CD or DVD media. The Live installer is a completely different beast I NEVER use.

Before we go into details: what do you really want? Be able to be online and getting updates via internet connection? Or do you want to ban the internet and only depend on the DVD? You seem to have a mixture in your sources.list.

As simple as it is, currently there is no "daedalus-security" yet as long as Daedalus still is in the testing stage.

Well, the encryption problem is fixed with the netinstall iso dated June 1st. The nopat issue still exists.

Thank you for your attention.

@Ralph: thank you. Can confirm that the 'nopat' option works. The installer boots into a VBox VM and you can select a language.

But: when trying to set up an encrypted LVM in expert mode, the installer stumbles, I get a red screen past entering the passphrase twice. On console 4 I see the message "partman-crypto: libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_exit to work"