The non-free firmware is here: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-linux-nonfree_20190114-2_all.deb
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 6:31 AM Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:20:19PM +0000, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm new to the mailing list, but not new to devuan. I've been running > devuan ascii in production for a couple of years. I really like the > product. My system is so much more stable without systemd and all the bull > associated with Ubuntu. > > > > I've been trying to use the net-install from a USB stick on a system > that does not have a CD-ROM attacted. It has been a failure. > > > > Here are the troubles. If any of you have work arounds, I'd be grateful > > > > first it complains about needing a non-free firmware for the wifi device > and asks for a a non-existant CD. It keeps asking and I keep saying no. It > look for the ISO that is loaded from the USB stick or go out to the network > for the firmware since it asks again after the network loads and configures. > > > > It asks for a realtek driver for the realtek nic's but they seem to work > OK. > > Sorry. I don't know where to get the nonfree firmware if it isn't on > your installation media. Perhaps you are installing in a mode that > refuses nonfree anything? I believe there's an option in the installer > to allow nonfree firmware. That's an option the Free Software > Foundation complains about and refuses to consider Debian and Devuan to > be truly free. > > See if you can find that option. > > > > > When partitioning the disk, It sees the exisiting partitions and > > filesystems that are there (Ext4, BTRFS and SWAP). When I go to set > > the mount point and whether to use the partition I get the choice of > > "Do not use," Ext2, Fat16, and Fat32. No Ext4 or BTRFS which are the > > two that i need. > > Maybe a workaround? > > Are you planning to install the new system on those Ext4, BTRFS > partitions? > > Or are you going to install it on new partitions and have the eventual > installed system use those partitions? > > If the latter, you could install a minimal system on the partitions it > will let you use, and then afterward add the others to the /etc/fstab > file. > > This whole situation puzzles me; I have never had to do this on a new > install. > > I have done things like this on my server, which has had no new > installation of Debian/Devuan for over a decade. Create new partitions > for new file systems, copy the entire system over, adjust critical files > (like /etc/fstab) in the copied system, boot into it and then upgrade. > I go through this charade to make sure I have a fallback in case the > upgrade fails (it has once -- ran out of disk space in /usr) but it also > works when I want to change file systems. > > But I've never had it on a new install. > > -- hendrik > > > > > At this point, I have to give up. I'm about to try the Desktop-Live. The > net-install should work and have drivers for Ext4 at least, right? > > > > Should I install ascii and then do a dist-upgrade? I've done that to a > couple of very lightweight systems (DNS servers) successfully. > > > > Thanks in advance > > Curtis > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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