Hello,
I'm new to the mailing list, but not new to devuan. I've been running devuan ascii in production for a couple of years. I really like the product. My system is so much more stable without systemd and all the bull associated with Ubuntu.

I've been trying to use the net-install from a USB stick on a system that does not have a CD-ROM attacted. It has been a failure.

Here are the troubles. If any of you have work arounds, I'd be grateful

first it complains about needing a non-free firmware for the wifi device and asks for a a non-existant CD. It keeps asking and I keep saying no. It look for the ISO that is loaded from the USB stick or go out to the network for the firmware since it asks again after the network loads and configures.

It asks for a realtek driver for the realtek nic's but they seem to work OK.

When partitioning the disk, It sees the exisiting partitions and filesystems that are there (Ext4, BTRFS and SWAP). When I go to set the mount point and whether to use the partition I get the choice of "Do not use," Ext2, Fat16, and Fat32. No Ext4 or BTRFS which are the two that i need.

At this point, I have to give up. I'm about to try the Desktop-Live. The net-install should work and have drivers for Ext4 at least, right?

Should I install ascii and then do a dist-upgrade? I've done that to a couple of very lightweight systems (DNS servers) successfully.

Thanks in advance
Curtis