On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 04:37:28PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a need to install a new machine with Devuan Beowulf - fortunately, only
> temporarily.
>
> (The short answer to "why?" is "to check whether someone is correct about the
> upgrade to Chimaera having broken something which they haven't spotted until
> now".) We know that the upgrade from Chimaera to Daedalus hasn't caused the
> problem.
>
> Running the Beowulf installer gets as far as asking which network mirror I
> want to use, and there are only two choices, neither of which work any more
> because Beowulf has been archived.
>
> How do I tell the installer to use archive.devuan.org as the network mirror,
> so it can at least fetch and install the last released packages for Beowulf?

Probably the easiest way would be to install "without network". That
will give you a rather basic installation. It does however have some
editor and enough for setting up a network.

If you wish, you could already chroot into /target before any
rebooting of it, for the manual inflation before the first boot.

hth

Ralph.