[tde-users] Re: half-baked devuan installation - please help

On Saturday 14 October 2023 00:25:30 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote: Not yet. As stated in a previous email, I am waiting to test out these upgrades to daedalus, using non-free firmware according to your recommendations. If I were to upgrade to excalibur, then I can go about it either of two ways: 1) reinstall my OS using a chimaera image, but doing a minimal installation; then upgrading to daedalus, then upgrading to excalibur. This may or may not work, of course, but I may get irritated enough by these weird glitches that I decide that it must be tried. Or, 2) to stick with my current daedalus installation (with all the preferred packages already installed); only I have upgraded, and have added those packages that you recommended. Before I go changing things in what is basically still a stable system (doesn't crash, etc.), I want to give this a try. It may be, after a few reboots, that I discover that the problem all along was that I needed those packages. If this still doesn't help, then I will give excalibur a try. But I don't like taking the scenic route just to install that release (i.e., chimaera > daedalus > upgrading by changing my sources.list). That, to me seems just a bit too indirect, and will probably make for a few surprises along the way. Yes, I think that this would work, because when I install to my internal hard drive, this is one of the questions asked: Do I want to create an efi partition on an external drive (USB flash, etc.) on which to install grub? with the promise that it might boot an otherwise unbootable machine. It seems to me that the OS installed on my flash drive, which will be essentially the same as whatever I install on my system, can use that same efi partition and grub. But I might be wrong; just because it seems to make sense to say it doesn't mean that it will actually work. It appears that none else has tried it. There am I, the intrepid adventurer, boldly going where nobody has gone before ... Bill