Well, a Ryzen 7700 is something pretty new. Maybe the CPU is not supported by the kernel that comes with Daedalus. The stick should boot.

Anyhow, CSM support has been removed for every new computer design past about 2020 based on a decision by the big industry protagonists. It will not come back. I also own an Acer laptop bought in 2020 that is UEFI only.

About writing the iso image to the stick: make sure you use the raw device, not any partition. Example: of=/dev/sda is correct, of=/dev/sda1 is wrong, won't work. Also make sure to use the 5.01 version.

Also Ventoy is useless since Daedalus.

Good luck.

gksu and so on have been replaced by pkexec and polkit policies some time ago. Somewhere in the release notes should be a note telling that gksu is depracated and removed from the distribution (inherited from Debian).

My private suggestion: look into free tools and devices instead of that proprietary stuff. You will be much happier.

I have a file server in the basement where I store my music files. And I use Audacious and a play list to play that music over my network on my PC.

I am a long term user of Lightdm on amd64, but I see no reason why it shouldn't work on i386.

Simple instructions:

# apt install lightdm
# nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Edit under Seats, remove the hash before greeter_hide_users

I would say: wrong approach.
1.) Do not use Beowulf, use Daedalus. Beowulf is too old for that hardware and no more maintained.
2.) Do not try i386, use amd64. i386 on a modern UEFI PC may not boot at all.

Forget about this FAT32 formatting of the USB stick, this is nonsense. What you show is basically correct, unfortunately just the i386 version. The iso is loaded onto the bare stick.

Get a Daedalus netinstall amd64 and write it to the stick the same way as the Beowulf version. When you boot from the stick use that entry in the boot menu that has the (U)EFI-Prefix.

Good luck

Wait until it comes back.

Wait a moment, you used deb.devuan.com. Thats not correct. Please use deb.devuan.org to ping.

On the other hand: this is my result:

~$ ping -c 1 deb.devuan.org
PING deb.rr.devuan.org (131.188.12.211) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ftp.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (131.188.12.211): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=32.9 ms

--- deb.rr.devuan.org ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.882/32.882/32.882/0.000 ms

~$ ping -c 1 deb.devuan.com
PING deb.devuan.com (199.59.243.227) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 199.59.243.227 (199.59.243.227): icmp_seq=1 ttl=248 time=14.8 ms

--- deb.devuan.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.752/14.752/14.752/0.000 ms

No loss on both.

You should blame it to your internet provider. They are filtering/blocking stuff they do not understand. Talk to them why you can't get even a ping to a software site.

Welcome Phil.

I think you are slightly off track, the server called deb.devuan.org just works fine. Just did an apt update on my Daedalus, it worked here in Germany via the Telekom network. I can also switch to the devuan.org web page via the link on the right hand corner at the top of this page.

There were various events like this in the past, typically apt update not working against deb.devuan.org. You may search this forum for posts about this issue.

None of them was a server failure. It always boiled down to DNS issues. Various approaches are possible: use another DNS, look for a close by suitable mirror via this page https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan, talk to your network provider ...

Good luck

You should have been trapped in any release including Beowulf and later. The only way around is a dedicated root terminal.

The problem itself is inherited from Debian. In Buster there was a move of the su command from one package to another (I don't know exactly the names, can be found in the internet). They told me now the su command behaves as in any other Unix/Linux. Not that I like it, I see that very often the "normal" user stumbles across this behaviour. Not really user friendly. Not a bug, works as intended by the people knowing better.

That laptop should have a DVD drive. Its possibly easier to boot from there instead of from USB.

And if only 512M of RAM is installed, this isn't good enough to start from.

Edit the headline in your initial post and add a [Solved] or something similar there.

BTW: afaik slim no more is maintained. It might be a good idea to switch to i.e. lightdm.

What are we talking about? Chimaera, Daedalus, Excalibur? Anything else?