Felix Miata composed on 2018-03-21 19:28 (UTC-0400):
William Morder composed on 2018-03-21 16:04 (UTC-0700):
By the way, on the Trinity pages, there is nowhere that it describes how to do a minimal installation (without other DEs), and just go straight to TDE. It is probably there somewhere, but as others have also mentioned, the site is a little disorganized, I think due to the fact that pages are added on an ad hoc basis, and also that it's pretty much a volunteer project without the resources of the bigger names.
We went through this here a month ago. Doing a minimal installation is specific to each Distro, not TDE, so "it" would have to be a bunch of pages, or a more complicated page few or no single people could make alone.
For Stretch, the cmdline options I use on http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::12201 that include string "install" will cause a truly minimal installation, to which you need to add Xorg from Debian, to have a working base from which to run TDE.
If Devuan's installer is Debian-based, likely the same options would be applicable. If not, Devuan's own docs, help forum and/or mailing list archive ought to address such need.
Both Debian-based, and provides howto for minimal install: https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/jessie-minimal-install
Instead of following the --include=nano instruction @Debootstrap, I would do --include=mc, and have all its recommendeds at the outset.