After much procrastination, and a few mis-steps (you don't want to
know), I finally got around to doing a "Guided Install". I made a few
changes:

a) The default partitioning on my 1 TB drive was 999 GB files and 1 GB
swap. I reduced the main partition size slightly, so the swap partition
can easily accomadate all my 16 gigs of ram during to-disk hibernation.
Yes, there is such an animal...
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package&q=hibernate=2.0+15+g88d54a8-1

b) I selected openrc

c) I de-selected "Devuan Desktop".

Two questions...

1) How do I properly uninstall (and purge) XFCE and then install ICEWM?
The XFCE desktop comes up automatically at boot-up, so there seems to be
some additional "behind-the-scenes" stuff going on.

2) How do I specify a fixed IP address. This is to allow ssh from my
other machine, and scp files back and forth. Ideally, I'd like the
/etc/hosts entry to be...

192.168.1.251  dev1.waltdnes.org       dev1

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