| deadrom | hi. I want to install devuan 5 over a legacy debian 10 that I ported to a new ssd and added an EFI fat32 at the start. After trying to revive this debian unsuccesfully I decided to install devuan over and see if anything is reusable. so far so good. | 17:17 |
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| deadrom | devuan 5 live on usb boot ok, first problem: doesn't ask me for keyboard settings, I have non-english key layout. by experience if I don't have it right from the install stage I'll have a hard time afterwards. so how do I properly setup the system for german keys? | 17:18 |
| deadrom | "add layout" in xfce settings is greyed out | 17:20 |
| gnarface | deadrom: you might be better off using one of the regular installer isos | 17:21 |
| gnarface | (i'd recommend the netinstall personally) | 17:22 |
| deadrom | gnarface: so the live iso is broken? | 17:26 |
| gnarface | deadrom: uh, no it's just not as easy to customize what it installs | 17:26 |
| gnarface | and i don't know it as well, frankly | 17:26 |
| deadrom | who is the intended audience for live? | 17:27 |
| gnarface | people who want to test out devuan without committing to installing it | 17:27 |
| gnarface | the fact it can be used as an installer is kindof just a bonus feature | 17:27 |
| gnarface | the thing it's most useful for is just checking hardware compatibility | 17:28 |
| gnarface | it makes a good recovery disk too though | 17:28 |
| deadrom | ok, I'll get me desktop-iso now. the refracta installer complained: "you need an EFI partition! do not overwrite an existing EFI partition!" ok now what. I have |efi|boot|root| on nvme0n1p|1|2|3| , what do I tell it? the existing EFI contains data from a deb10 refind install | 17:36 |
| gnarface | uh, i should know what you're supposed to tell it, but i don't | 17:36 |
| deadrom | ok ty anyway | 17:39 |
| gnarface | ... | 17:40 |
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