Yes, that was it but sadly, that link died years ago.   It was reposted on a site but I can't remember the name atm. It might no longer exist . . .

Happy to hear you're up and running and that you think it is "beautiful". The screen resolution stuff may have to do with the fact that the minimal live was designed for visually impaired access. Yeah, hardware can bite sometimes. 

Some things are not meant to be . . .

@tomasz . . .  What we choose with each intentional action sets the course of our life. Easy to shoot oneself in the foot so best to choose wisely . . .

It might boot UEFI though. 

couldn't resist . . .

Yes . . . your assumption is correct . . . but we are a small team of individuals so the "bus factor" hangs over our heads. There is always "thrashing" in the community but very little interest in actually participating in the process. This model is not sustainable long term. Unless the community stops jawing and starts doing . . .

Not my problem anymore . . .

Thanks for the offer, auanta. I am waiting for the Webmaster to sort it and upload the corrected instructions to devuan.org. I'll let you know when that's sorted.

@tomasz . . . I think I found the problem!

The instructions should begin with this:

I see now that this change was made to an incompletely updated file - that line was added but the other release references on the page were not updated and the page never transitioned to the Devuan website. Totally a screwup on our end to have missed that.

Would it be possible for you to test a migration adding that instruction?

Welcome to the forum and thanks for taking the time to share your migration experience. I am only going to comment on the use of http vs https.

Please have a look at this page for basic information about Devuan's round-robin of repositories. If you want to use https, chose a specific mirror from the mirror list for your sources.list configuration. There is additional information about how the mirrors are set up here.

Any improvements to the current migration documentation would be appreciated.

Good bye.  Please find a more suitable place to vent. I am giving you an opportunity to do so gracefully . . . Thank you.

(And now I need to decontaminate . . . )

I have spoken up for a lot in my 80 years and am very good at it. Had Alcoa tied in knots for years.  Stopped an airport and a sludge dump and was in part responsible for the resignation of some local politicians. There was a shareholder resolution against WF after Y2K to do non-GMO labeling and sourcing. Oh . . . and Devuan and Free Software, of course. 

It was exhausting and in the grand scale of things wasn't even a drop in the ocean. Ultimately the solution is NOT out there. Happiness and "freedom" and ultimately "liberation" lies in understanding our internal responses and judgments to whatever is "out there" and seeing those phenomena as empty and unworthy of attention.  Think Gandhi . . . as long as there is an "us" and "them" there is no peace. Only bondage.

Exactly. I don't do any Western medicine or doctors. Period. Big money really has the masses on a treadmill. Most food available commercially makes the population sick then they go to the "experts" which makes them sicker. It is a closed circle scam to extract money from us and keep us fearful and obedient. They can kiss my skinny azz.