Having done an expert installation of Debian or Devuan perhaps a dozen
times, the Devuan refracta installer has me beat.

I'm running Daedalus from a SSD on a desktop machine. I installed a
second SSD and on which wish to install Daedalus as well. I had
started to a cross install and ao this second SSD is partioned
with gdisk and its parstitions formatted. There are 9 partitions with
swap being the 10th. Here are some examples:

partition 1 labeled boot is 5 GB GUID. Type is Linux file system
partution 2 is 550 GB with EF00 file system and abel /boot/efi No flag
partition 3 is 20 GB partition format type 8304
partition 4 is 300 GB format type 8302 and label /home
...
partion 100 is 30 GB with partition type sw amd label swap

The problem is that when I boot after the installation, it fails
because fsck cannot run, with status 8 (operational error). Web
searches no help. Error can be "Checking root file system...fsck.ext4"
"Permission denied while trying to open /run/rootdev"

I would like to go to mainteance, but refracta does not recognize root
password (I reinstalled four times and was particularly careful about
the password).

Does refracta have an "expert" installation option? Or later do you
simply choose to repartion?

Refracta sees two EFI parttions. I've tried to install with both but
outcomc the same. Athough not usual choice I decided to stick with the
efi partition on the new disk becaue I may have damaged the old disk.

I stick with default options except to provide labels in fstab

Since I already have parttions hopefully formatted I skip
partitioning. If one chooses to repartition, how does the installer
know to which of the partions to send files. Some are unlabeled.

The instllaer says to select swap partiton becaue it sees one on my
old SSD and one on the new SSD. It sees the latter as /dev/nvme1n1p10.
But when I tell the installer to use it it says it can't find the swap
partition and will use a swap file instead. I don't undersand.

The installer asks to which partition to install. I select
/dev/nvme1n1p3 labelled root. But why is N(o) the default choice here?

Refracta copied files to the partitions and sets up the space
(partition?). It also installs a boot loader.

After setting root and user passwords, I'm told to reboot. The boot
unsuccess for the reason indicated above.

--
Haines Brown