you could test this with

setxkbmap in -variant eng

then pressing

Alt-GR

and

4

evokes

symbol, but this is on a

keyboard, dont know if this makes any difference.

would not be able to achieve it ~ tried the expoert mode twice , once with 3 options clicked; second time with not additional options;
the install would seem to go through flawlessly, but apparently somehting went wrong, since could net effectuate basic operations like "sudo ifup" "sudo ifdown" "dhclient" etc. so second time i checked and there was maybe just 50 mb for the whole disc occupied;
~ tried to install packages then from with sources #usb-stick - but that would  fail miserably;
since have again used the normal text-installer to install distro anew and with the psmouse trick it would now function;

have noticed that the laptop could also have trouble with wake from "lock screen" - maybe the system is as whole a bit too advanced for the older laptop and might have more stable system with plain devuan ~ but i'd be glad to test some more since i really like the system, it is very responsive, thanks.

for the graphics driver nvidia,

think there is way to get it function on debian13/cdevuan6 for your card mentioned, atleast had so once if not mistaken, but it is a bit difficult , involves some workaround; think you could find info on net; at the moment i am using the gt 710 on another computer just with open-source driven, it function ok.
here is info on how to https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment … rivers_on/

for amdgpu  it is not officiially supported on debian (yet) but for some newer cards there is rocm support (debian), so it could function also on devuan. for older card, you will find better route just using the card as it is (like r5 430), if you strictly need opencl or such, you might find ways to enable it (there is also onoging effort for newer thing like rusticl or something, but there are other people here more knowledgeable on such matters that might advise you.

if you use a high-end monitor or 4k, then the gt 730 might be lacking with nouveau, but i just office 16:10 1680x1050, and it function well enough; but the driver part can be installed, if you strictly need to (as discussed in relevant forumposts, with instructions).
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/i … -13/352727

(wat a calamitY)
(click X on right if no account)

https://soundcloud.com/upliftah/love

hello , please forgive te hijack,

took the liberty to look up the sources.list ,

could you please tell me if this is ok for the laptop or if i should remove some of those lines (there seem to be 3 different distro involved)

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
Suites: freia
Components: main  non-free-firmware non-free contrib
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
Suites: testing
Components: main  non-free-firmware non-free contrib
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
Suites: unstable
Components: main  non-free-firmware non-free contrib
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg

thank you very much.

@chris2be8 ,
if you are interested, created a post over in the apposite forum to hihglight the issue,
to some degree, running in background is "desired" behaviour for the "client" since this program , when installed via "deb" is running in background after startup even before login-user, so i might have created a whole lot of noise for little bit noghting.

https://forum.foldingathome.org/viewtop … 77#p374677

old adagios still holdeth true:
those loudesth shoutesth, seldom the brightesth.

had this problem today that i nedded/wanted to install packages from devuan repository via recovery-mode
but was surprised that the recovery-mode did not find any network connection;

since i knew of this trick here, wanted to remedy via

dhclient eth0

only to find out that dhclient is not/no longer included by default (it seems even abandoned according to linked post above).

however, it would be very good if it could be included by default as paackage in devuan-netinstall and iso. to allow for exactly such situations to easily be mended.

my proposal hence to include the package that includes dhclient into devuan.iso for failsafe & debug network issues.

isc-dhcp-client

is the package in question.

thank you very much.

actually , idont know what the program is doing in the background, aside from apparently computeing;

but if it "survives" a logout, that isn*t a good sign, somehow, sisuppose.

makes one think of running task in background where actually the computer should sit quite still;
such continiuty features, if not advertised, are absolutely unwanted, at least in my book.

but possibly, sinceh the compile has just been matched up (it is supposed to run on "systemd" systems), maybe it got  botched to some degree since did only lwave awasy "libsystemd-dev" and the rest is as planned for those OS;
but apart this flaw, it seem to function fine;

or, the mate-desktop has more flaws, than one might expect (the big one seems to be the caja-filemanager).

well, must have gooten it all wrong, sorry for the previous post;

tried again today:
with ventoy-linux (./VentoyGUI.x86_64) the netinstall went through with both MBR and GPT
with ventoy-windows (Ventoy2Disk) the netinstall went through with MBR and NOT with GPT!

if i used GPT (via Ventoy2Disk), receive the same error you posted earliert

so i suggest you try again format with Ventoy and let use partition Style "MBR" which is standard setting for Ventoy.
that should work.

https://ibb.co/CKZ7HcsG

yeah, might check aout that.

in the meantime , have still strange tidings with upgrades.

now it says "upgrading" , but actually wants to remove it.

(nala removes it straight away; apt-upgrade upgrade first, but says it no longer needed?)

rubbish never comes for free.

as handy as rufus can be , it has issues with linux.iso sometimes, no doubt (if you have set to "MBR" > you need to make afterwards to boot from "UEFI" , someimes it nned to load to download from internet addtiional syslinux etc); ventoy should format for you the usb-stick, no questions asked, but if you have a strange usb-stick, you could always prepare it first via (diskpart > list disk > select disk > clean) just to make sure that ventoy has no trouble formatting;
but if you dont have a DVD drive  ad your disposal (which would be a pity for a new computer, of course), you could also use "rpi-imager" or balena etcher, as suggested, and it should get you there. rpi-imager has helped me out where others (also baledna) have failed.
if you have the proper BIOS setting in place, a DVD is the best bet, period. it is slower, takes sometimes long to load, but is quite impeccable for desired usecase.

edit> since have similar similar mainboard (b450m, msi-click-bios) took the freedom to lookup the setting (have windows 11, devuan 6, [ubuntu+] installed) Z here under Windoes OS Configuration ~ {UEFI} ~ {SecureBoot}[Enabled] ~ {SecureBootMode}[Custom]