Yes, if you click on the desktop icon to increase the font size, the font size is increased and no longer fits in the allotted space for the unhighlighted desktop icons. Same as if the icons name is too long to fit in that space. When you click on the icon to hightlight it, that one icon is given more space so that the full name shows. This is true with large font the same as with a long file name.

Refractainstaller will automatically format the selected partitions to your choice of ext2/3/4 unless you tell it not to. Other filesystem formats are possible by pre-formatting your partitions and telling the installer not to format. This information is in the Help available from within the installer.

The live installer provides the exact same debconf dialogues for locales, time zone and keyboard as the debian-installer. (same as if you run dpkg-reconfigure locales|tzdata|keyboard-configuration)

There's already a Report button at the bottom of each post, but it looks like it hardly ever gets used. 90% of the reports are for spam, and we don't even get those anymore. (Thanks, Ralph!) Maybe we just need to point out that button's existence in the top post. Or maybe we don't - this is a pretty calm board, even when it heats up.

The installer in the live isos does not do any automatic partitioning. After you close gparted, you should get questions about where to put the OS, and if you made separate partitions for /home or /boot, you get to select those, too.

Some lenovos won't let you use legacy boot. I don't know the details on that.

If you're booting in uefi mode, you will need to re-partition your drive.
In gparted, first go to the Device menu and write a new gpt partition table. You must have left it set for msdos.

At minimum, you will need a partition for the OS and an efi partition (with esp and boot flags). The swap partition is optional - the installer will create a swapfile if there's no swap partition.

If you want to use a gpt-partitioned disk with legacy boot, you need to create a special partition for that. It must be >1MB and unformatted. (It's at the bottom of the list of filesystem types in gparted). And it must have the bios_grub flag.

No systemd-shim. The only package with systemd in its name is libsystemd0, and that was needed for xorg.

There's a full package list in the root of the iso.

I'm surprised the live installer didn't display the nvme disk/partitions. That's been in there since 9.2.1. Support for uefi in the cli installer was added in 9.3-something. Currently, 9.4.2 is in ascii. If you use that version (graphical) and it doesn't show the nvme, please let me see the error log. (if you start it from terminal instead of from the apps menu, please add the -d option for a debug log.)

The efi partition selection window should work correctly in the latest versions. There's still the problem of knowing which disk is first. If the bios/uefi provides a boot device menu (F12 or other key may do it) you can see which disk the motherboard wants to use, and you probably have to use that one.

For uefi, you must use gpt partitioning.

Refracta Installer will let you have separate partitions for other directories. In the graphical installer, it's in the Options menu, and for the cli installer, there's an option in the config file. It's a bit of a hack - the system gets installed first, and then those directories get copied to the additional partitions, and the originals get deleted. If you're installing an encrypted system, don't use this feature. The additional partitions won't be encrypted.

3.16 kernel is in jessie. Ascii has 4.9. Which iso are you using?

Here's an updated iso with ascii-backports 4.16 kernel and new refractainstaller -
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file … 5_1409.iso

Here are my notes on installing extlinux (after installation of the system)

To do it from within the installer, alt-F2 to get to a console.

chroot /target

Then you should be able to install extlinux.

Note: you must choose one of the expert installs to prevent grub from being installed.

Ha! This question presumes some consistency from one uefi implementation to the next. On mine, F12 brings up a boot device menu with HDD, USB, Optical and Network. The USB line shows the thumb drives that are uefi-ready, but is empty when I try one that only boots with bios. This is a laptop, so there's only one internal drive.

Running efibootmgr shows all the bootloaders on the efi partition. There's one for each installed system (except for where I didn't let the installer add a bootloader) and those don't get deleted if I remove an installed system (by wiping a partition, for instance.) Whichever was installed last is first in the boot order.

Can you change the order of the hard drives if you go into the computer setup?
Have you previously booted any linux from this nvme drive on this computer?

I don't know the answer, but I've seen similar recursive symlinks in various locations and various distributions over the years.

Good. Just so you know what that line does...

That says to mount sda3 (your MXLinux partition) at the root of the filesystem. Which means you would be running mx, not devuan.

Whereas, this line:

mounts the mx partition at /mnt, where it is available, but is not the system that's running at that time.

Changing '/dev/whatever' to 'UUID=' or 'LABEL=' is just a different way of identifying the partition. Sometimes it's necessary to do that. (e.g. multiple disks in the computer)

It is displayed on this line of your output:

/dev/sda3         95G   7.6G   83G   9% /mnt

The partition that holds MXLinux is mounted at /mnt. The files in your MX home are under /mnt/home/ and are available to you in Devuan. Is this not what you want?

It won't show up on the desktop when it is mounted. Try 'ls /mnt' to see that it's there.

No. I mean you can edit devuan's fstab to use the uuid instead of /dev/sda3. If you only have one hard drive in the computer, you probably don't need to do this. (The order of hard drives can't change if there is only one.) You don't need to change anything in MX.

devuan's fstab: (be sure to remove the quotes around the uuid number)

UUID=6e55911a-2620-4ab6-b2b5-1458602e6252       /       ext4    defaults,noatime        0       1
UUID=0b4a75ba-8b74-47b1-8aaa-2d971f92732f       swap    swap    defaults        0       0
UUID=66f3f330-78b2-4767-bc3e-8a9e7750e476    /mnt    auto defaults,noatime     0     0

Since you have a label on the MX partition, you could do this instead:

UUID=6e55911a-2620-4ab6-b2b5-1458602e6252       /       ext4    defaults,noatime        0       1
UUID=0b4a75ba-8b74-47b1-8aaa-2d971f92732f       swap    swap    defaults        0       0
LABEL=MXLinux    /mnt    auto defaults,noatime     0     0