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ovi

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Registered: 2026-03-29

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Freia not available for download.

I wanted to download the ISO for Freia and install it in a VM. The folder is empty. I am curious why is  the ISO is not available for download.

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: Freia not available for download.

Freia is in testing and not yet released.

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ovi

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Registered: 2026-03-29

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Re: Freia not available for download.

First, Thank you for your reply!

Yes, I know that is not officially released. In this location:
https://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan/devu … aller-iso/

was the testing Freia ISO. And now is empty. It was an ISO last week. I am on Devuan for about a month, I don't really know how things  should be.

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Freia not available for download.

Typically there are no regular iso's prepared in the early stages of testing. This is happening when the release is due.

Normally, you take a stable, e.g. netinstall, do your installation, and then change the sources.list to freia. apt update/apt full-upgrade then will do the job.

greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: Freia not available for download.

Normally, you take a stable, e.g. netinstall, do your installation, and then change the sources.list to freia. apt update/apt full-upgrade then will do the job.

There ya go, then roll it up with Refracta-Snapshot and you have a nice iso.

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rbit

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Registered: 2018-06-12

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Re: Freia not available for download.

There's an issue with the current freia netinstall iso.  It's not booting in virtualbox with efi enabled.  Haven't tested it on actual hardware yet.  I was going to wait until I addressed that, but since there's evidently a demand for it, the netinstall is back and should hit the iso mirrors shortly.

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the current state of freia installer is not good.  download and test if you'd like, but for me it's now failing at the step Partition Disks and will not proceed (even if run /usr/bin/partman).  Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Last edited by rbit (Yesterday 00:44:09)

ovi

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Registered: 2026-03-29

Posts: 7  

Re: Freia not available for download.

I succeeded installing  stable version and then switched to Freia.

I have seen that the ISO is now available. I tested the Freia installer on junk laptop ( junk because it has some issues from factory, but mainly functional). Indeed Partition Disks is failing also on real hardware. Now I see why the ISO image was missing.

I still have one question: on the Testing(now Freia) should I run time to time: apt full-upgrade?

Thank you all for your answers!

delgado

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 287  

Re: Freia not available for download.

In short: Yes.
Some packages are "kept back" when running apt upgrade, but install through apt dist-upgrade.
E.g. kernel and *some* other packages will stuck at older versions.
At least this is the case on my freia installation.