I just wonder:
Is there any reason to install Kicad from backports? It's fully present in the standard Devuan Deadalus repos.... and has long been.

I have to correct myself:
when installing another DE to an existing Devuan / Cinnamon installation, you don't even have to configure anything:
Install another DE using tasksel and lightdm will let you choose the DE on the login-screen. And it keeps the last selection.

If you start with a Devuan / XFCE installation, you will have SLIM as Display Manager (DM, or also Login Manager).
There you can add a second DE as well.
If you prefer the more comfortable lightdm as Display Manager, THEN the install process will ask you which DM you prefer as the default: lightdm or slim .

Adding another DE (Desktop Environment) is best done using tasksel.
Adding or substituting the DM (Display Manager) can be done using apt.

Should work with GDM as well(?)
Good luck.

Hello, my 5 cents to this:
I have a plain standard Daedalus installation on all my systems. My wife does the e-Banking and got some warnings from the bank's web-site.
Our plain standard installations have firefox 115.4.0esr - which comes with normal "apt update" commands.
So that settles it for Daedalus.

I downloaded Firefox from Mozilla.org and extracted/installed it to /opt. It can work in parallel with the esr Firefox, and the problems with the bank are solved.
Sincerely...

Only my 2 pennies to it:
now I usually install Devuan (Daedalus) plain standard, Cinnamon DE, Console Productivity, SSH Server and Standard System Utilities, choosing OpenRC etc.
I don't even bother to check or configure any printer.
The CUPS-Browsed or Bonjour protocols seem to do all work.
When i check in Menu - Administration - Print Settings, my printer is already there. The same holds true for the scanner (MFP Printers).
This automatic setup seems to work with several modern printer brands. I can confirm this for Brother, HP and Canon.
I wonder if your Kyocera is an older model or configured differently.
My printer was set up just by connecting it to power and the internal network (I gave it a fixed IP address in the same subnet as the workstations)
So, maybe, this could work for modern Kyocera printers as well???

It's lovely to read positive comments! Thank you.
If things are good it's good to tell that too. And I personally haven't found a single negative aspect of Devuan 5 yet.
All our systems now run Devuan5 - and before it was Devuan - many years already. Stability, freedom, sensible selection of software and an exciting community. What more is there to wish?
We have to thank the developers, the community, the "Veteran Unix Adminstrators"... a great bravissimo to them.

Suggestion:
download the iso HelenSmith indicated
download the checksums and verify your downloaded iso
(sha256sum devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop.iso)
then:
sudo dd if=devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop.iso of=/dev/sdb ### (if that is your USB drive, verify it with lsblk, make sure its unmounted.)
be patient
reboot
follow the simplest procedure to install (select 1)
be sure which partition you want to use
as an example:
  - /dev/sda1 EFI (don't touch if its already there)
  - /dev/sda2 ext4, format it , it becomes root (/)
  - /dev/sda3 SWAP (twice memory size 8GB memory, make it 8-16 GB)
  - /dev/sda4 ext4, don't format it if you want to reuse userdata, (/home)
  - /dev/sda5 ext4, format it, could become /srv (/srv)

If you are sure of your choices, write the layout down to disk and continue your installation.

If it's to become a server, you can always remove unwanted software like libreoffice and whatever later, apt and synaptic do a very good job.
You might want to choose:
-  Devuan Destop environment
-  XFCE
-  web server
-  console productivity
-  ssh server
-  standard system utilities.

This shouldn't be that hard, the mentioned documentation is quite good.
The only critical thing may be the grub-install.
I mentioned it before, but if the new Devuan is the only OS ion your system, it should work, hopefully.
Good luck.

I encountered that problem when installing Daedalus on a UEFI-type computer that also has another linux (Mint) on another partition.
The same message at the first boot after successful installation
I could solve it by booting to linux mint and doing the grub-install and update-grub things from mint. That still has the os-prober enabled.
Afterwards I could boot Daedalus.
I then corrected the update-grub file to allow the os-prober again. All is fine now.

Welcome to the forum and the very friendly Devuan-community!

You complicate matters by using the server-CD and CD2,3,4,  increasingly so if done in a VM, due to the CD swapping.
It can be done in a single go using the desktop-image iso, which you can directly import to your VM host and deploy your Cinnamon-Devuan installation.
The server CD, though installs only basic things to make up a server. However, you can install tasksel which gives you the comfort of an automated process to install desktop-environments.
BTW: you can install a pure server using the same dvd-iso.
The install instructions are here:
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … all-devuan

Good luck and have fun. Daedalus is really fun, believe me.

It's quite easy:
install clamav-daemon (with all dependencies)

The services will be installed and started.
To make sure your on-access-scan is started by default:

$ sudo rc-update add clamav-daemon

I've just verified it on my standard Devuan 4 (Chimaera) system. It run's with open-rc.
If you have a system installed with init-sysV, the same script should work:

$ ls -l /etc/init.d/clam*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9563 Feb 17 21:43 /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7692 Feb 17 21:43 /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam

Agree: none
Should you share files with Windows machines, you can check and protect these files with clamav. Just keep it updated. Read The Fascinating Man-pages.

Just to conclude that matter,
the desktop-iso (rc4) works like a charm too.
I found no issues with all 3 isos tested. (rc4!)

I suggest to mark the topic resolved...
Thanks to you all