Hello,

>For my Pi 1's and Zero's i have to specify the armel architecture

>> because apparently Debian arm v6 does not exist.
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> Devuan does have support for armel arch:
>
> You can see the Image for RaspBerry Pi 1 here:  
> http://arm-files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_armel_rpi1_0.4.img.xz
>
> It already has all the necessary stuff in it, you don't need the rpi repos :)
>
> user: devuan
>
> passwd: devuan
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> root:
>
> password: toor

Best Regards,

tux