I am trying to install 32 bit Devuan from the CD (off the Download
Zone), but it's gone into a badness loop at "Install the base system"
at the point of installing busybox. I captured the installation syslog
at this point, and it suggests 3 problem points:

Aug 16 08:00:40 base-installer: W: Failed to fetch
http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386/Packages
Cannot initiate the connection to 3142:80 (0.0.12.70). - connect (22:
Invalid argument)
Aug 16 08:00:40 base-installer:
Aug 16 08:00:40 base-installer: E: Some index files failed to download.
They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
--
Aug 16 08:00:41 in-target: WARNING: The following packages cannot be
authenticated!
Aug 16 08:00:41 in-target: locales
Aug 16 08:00:41 in-target: E: There are problems and -y was used without
--force-yes
--
Aug 16 08:00:42 in-target: WARNING: The following packages cannot be
authenticated!
Aug 16 08:00:42 in-target: busybox
Aug 16 08:00:42 in-target: E: There are problems and -y was used without
--force-yes

One or all of those stops me from moving on and install the system.
I can go C-A-F2 + chroot and install manually, but there's still some
installation state somewhere that blocks progress.

Perhaps someone has some advice?

Ralph.