Hi all, I previously mentioned here[1,2] that the netinst ISO images are no use for air-gapped installs. That was for Beowulf beta images and has been addressed (at least partially, IIRC). Besides, it *is* documented[3].
So I have been using the server image. That claims to allow for a *complete* off-line server/minimal installation where the emphasis is mine. Now the Beowulf 3.1.0 point release announcement[4] says that [t]he installer now offers a choice of three init systems. `runit` has been added, along with `sysvinit` and `openrc`. Cool! Downloaded the 3.1.1 server image and installed, selecting runit as my init. No warnings, everything installs fine, system reboots okay, but ... no runit :-o What gives? The installer logs mention that some `runit*` package is not available (sorry, forgot which one and the logs are gone :-(). Poking around in the Packages file and pool/ directory on the image, I *think* that may have been `runit-init`. A regular, non-air-gapped install has that package installed and the installer logs show it getting installed in the `choose-init` "stage" and downloaded from deb.devuan.org. Considering that `runit-init` is about 40KB and the ISO images are netinst 309MB server 590MB desktop 3658MB (for amd64) I would prefer to see `runit-init` added to the server image over downloading the desktop image for air-gapped installs. It makes a 3GB difference :-o # But I'll be working around with the desktop image for the time being. [1]: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20200320.010518.98571ef6.en.html [2]: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20200322.113542.8f9ac3d5.en.html [3]: https://devuan.org/get-devuan [4]: https://devuan.org/os/announce/beowulf-point-release-announce-021421 Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
