live-metal/devuan-desktop-metal.md

Devuan Desktop Metal blend file

Devuan install to disk using zfs, largely following the process outlined in the openzfs getting started documentation

Blend config

• disk name
• zfs pool names
• partition sizes and order
• legacy bios or efi boot
• grub theme

Package install methods

• via apt - additional packages defined in the blend config
• via dpkg - debs placed in the blend directory or the blends blend_packages directory
• via scripts - custom scripts placed in the blends blend_scripts directory
• via dselect - the existance of a packages.list file in /var/tmp, install additional packages in the livesd image and run get_selections to generate them, or run the commands in the function on another system and write them to the bootstraps /var/tmp