My Devuan installation notes.

Some are applicable to any APT-based distro.

Note for APT-based distro: To remove translations, create file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translation and insert Acquire::Languages { “none”; };.

Note: look into unattended-upgrades (simply apt install and run dpkg-reconfigure –priority=low unattended-upgrades???)

To prevent GRUB from looking for other OS every time it is updated:

• edit /etc/default/grub and insert

  GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true

• run update-grub

To add a custom entry:

• add a menuentry in /etc/grub.d/40_custom
• uses the same menuentry format as in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  • e.g. to boot my Slackware partition I can insert

    menuentry 'Slackware' --class slackware --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'my1part-<uuid>' {
    	insmod part_gpt
    	insmod ext2
    	set root='hd0,gpt4'
    	if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4  <uuid>
    	else
    	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 4d95a526-2518-4fd6-a904-f7bd2729145d
    	fi
    	linux /boot/vmlinuz-huge-4.4.240 root=/dev/sda4
    }

  • use initrd (after linux line) to specify an initrd/initramfs
  • of course, <uuid> should be a valid filesystem uuid
• run update-grub

If KVM group is missing, simply create one…

# [ -z "$(cat /etc/group|grep kvm)" ] && addgroup --gid 125 kvm

Setup Wine (as root):

• enable multiarch
• install wine and winetricks

  # apt install wine wine32 winetricks

Configure Wine (as user):

• if required, remove previous settings

  $ rm -rf $HOME/.wine

• config for win32

  $ WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

• setup nice fonts

  $ winetricks corefonts

Note: Install fuseiso to enable mounting ISO as user

Setup Installer ISO:

• create link to ISO as CDROM device

  $ ln -sf /path/to/install.iso $HOME/.wine/dosdevices/d::

• mount ISO

  $ fuseiso mount  /path/to/install.iso $HOME/.wine/drive_d

• create link to mount path as CDROM drive

  $ ln -sf $HOME/.wine/drive_d $HOME/.wine/dosdevices/d:

Run installer

• $ wine D:\\Setup.exe

Fixes:

• menu does not show (solution available at WineHQ)
  • download ddraw.dll from https://github.com/CnCNet/ts-ddraw/releases
  • place in RA2 install path
  • run winecfg add that to library (as window native, instead of builtin)

• download windows version from ltspice website and run

  $ wine /download/path/LTspiceXVII.exe

Check out here.

Using rpi-devuan-chimaera-5.10.110-ext4-2022-04-16.zip

• boots ok (default hostname=bcm2711)
• login (root:toor)
• setup

  # run-setup

• change hostname (edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts)
• reboot
• remove default user

  # userdel -r devuan

• most development stuffs i want are preinstalled! yay!
• install vim

  # apt install vim

• remove nano

  # apt remove nano

  • also

    # rm .nanorc

• install xorg stuffs

  # apt install xorg libx11-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev

• install suckless stuffs

  # apt install stterm suckless-tools

• create user and login as that user
• get my1shell and my1ubuild

  # git clone https://codeberg.org/azman/my1shell
  # git clone https://codeberg.org/azman/my1ubuild

• install dwm from source
• install browser & font

  # apt install surf fonts-liberation2

work in progress… 2 issues: {surf cannot validate cert}{reboot hangs}

Note: Will simply use Raspberry Pi OS for now…