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Grahamps

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Registered: 2026-05-02

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

I am going to be following this closely, it's inspired me to restart my tribute build; full disclosure, for the rough start I did use the last KDE build as a spring board. Either way, the kernel has humbled me again and dinit has proved both insanely quick and straight forward but unforgiving. So massive kudos and a serious thank you.

Valera

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Registered: 2026-01-25

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Grahamps, thank you for your support.

Bizz91

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Registered: 2026-05-02

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Posted right there few mins ago on your Mx Linux forum post and the devuanusers.com post too. All the best of luck man.
Can't wait for a distro on X Libre with any init plus sysd shim and MX Tools or Tweaks And Sonic DE (Plasma 6 fork) with X Server support since Plasma 6.8 will be wayland only and this Sonic DE will like Plasma 6 with that X server support.
I am in "do one thing well" team.

Devarch

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Registered: 2022-10-03

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

I found an interesting feature of this distribution - the installer refuses to see the second disk. Both disks are SSDs. Why?

Last edited by Devarch (2026-05-03 20:55:34)

Valera

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Registered: 2026-01-25

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Gazelle Installer? I have never had problems with it, and I have not changed the default settings. Maybe your SSD is not visible in Live, look before installing it in Gparted and try to mount it manually.

Last edited by Valera (2026-05-04 05:01:54)

Devarch

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Registered: 2022-10-03

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Maybe your SSD is not visible in Live, look before installing it in Gparted and try to mount it manually.

The installer works as expected when I use a Ventoy flash drive. The aforementioned strange behavior only occurs when booting the Live system from this second SSD using Ventoy. In such cases, I see all partitions on the first drive and only Ventoy-related partitions on the second. As a result, I am unable to install the distribution to the second drive.

Bizz91

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Registered: 2026-05-02

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

You can't install that particular distro to the same drive you are booting from in ventoy. I have had that in MX Linux since even the file managers don't let us access that drive either.

Devarch

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Registered: 2022-10-03

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

You can't install that particular distro to the same drive you are booting from in ventoy. I have had that in MX Linux since even the file managers don't let us access that drive either.

Thanks for info. Anyway it's over - kernel panic after update, not this distro fault but ceres one.
My experience: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit is great but as it's based on unstable it does not survive un update

Valera

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Registered: 2026-01-25

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Configure Timeshift to take one snapshot per week. I have not had any problems after updates.