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These steps are all very small and trivial.
A lot of these steps are just "click the next button"
or perhaps click on an option somewhere in VMware.
There are even steps where you do nothing but watch.
000 What do you mean 106 steps! Not just 10 or 12? Why?
001 Devuan Linux is the lightweight variation of Debian
002 Download Devuan Linux installation ISO file
003 Download Devuan Linux from a mirror site
004 Select a Devuan Linux mirror site
005 Select the Devuan Chimaera stable release
006 Select the Devuan Linux installer-iso directory
007 Select the Devuan chimaera netinstall file
008 Download the Devuan Linux netinstall file to your computer
009 Begin to create the empty VMware Workstation virtual machine
010 Begin the VMware New Virtual Machine Wizard
011 Select the ordinary and Typical VMware Virtual Machine
012 Tell VMware Workstation where the Devuan Linux netinstall file is
013 Select the Devuan Linux netinstall file
014 Select Linux as the Guest Operating System
015 Select a type of Linux for the VMware Virtual Machine
016 Give your VMware Virtual Machine a name
017 Select a reasonable size for the VMware virtual machine disk
018 CAREFUL HERE
019 Ensure the automatic power on sequence is off
020 Customize the VMware Virtual Machine
021 Select virtual memory for the VMware Virtual Machine
022 Select the number of processors for the VMware Virtual Machine
023 Number of processors for VMware Virtual Machine
024 Select the CDROM or DVD device and file for a VMware Virtual Machine
025 Select a network method for your VMware Virtual Machine
026 We do not need a printer for a VMware Virtual Machine
027 No need for a USB controller to install a VMware Virtual Machine
028 Use a trivial display config for the VMware Virtual Machine
029 Almost done with the config of a VMware Virtual Machine
030 Finish the config of a VMware Virtual Machine
031 You may see this window pop up
032 The console and status window for your VMware Virtual Machine
033 Further things we can configure in the VMware Virtual Machine
034 Further options for a new VMware Virtual Machine
035 Full Guest Isolation during install of the VMware Virtual Machine
036 Guest Isolation done for VMware Virtual Machine
037 Manual update of the VMware Tools
038 UEFI
039 Finally Start up the Guest operating system
040 Launch the VMware Virtual Machine
041 Welcome to the Devuan Linux boot loader
042 Begin the Devuan installer in standard mode
043 Select a Language
044 Select C as the language during installation
045 Select your region
046 Select your country
047 Select a keyboard style
048 Watch various components being installed
049 Watch the network be automatically configured
050 Give your Devuan Linux Virtual Machine a name
051 Select a network domain name
052 Select a root level password
053 Verify the root password
054 Create a somewhat ordinary user
055 What is the username for your admin entity
056 Choose a password for your admin user
057 Verify the admin user password
058 Select a reasonable timezone
059 You may see a big blue blank screen sometimes
060 Partition the VMware virtual disk
061 Partition the VMware Virtual storage disk
062 Keep the disk partition simple
063 Finish the disk partition process
064 Actually commit the changes to the disk partition
065 Watch the installer progress
066 Watch the Devuan Linux installer continue
067 Scan the installation media
068 Configure the package manager
069 HTTP proxy
070 Configuring apt
071 Watch as apt brings in software components from a mirror
072 Select and Install software
073 Always have popcon
074 More software will be installed
075 Select a desktop environment
076 A pile of software packages to be installed
077 Just watch the progress bar
078 Select an init system
079 Watch sysvinit install
080 Installing the GRUB boot loader
081 Finish the installation
082 Installation is complete
083 Watch the last progress bar
084 Hit the power button and shut down the machine
085 Power off the Virtual Machine before it really boots
086 Power off the virtual machine
087 The VMware Tools package warning
088 Edit the virtual machine config
089 Remove the CD/DVD device
090 Start up the guest operating system
091 You may ignore the VMware Tools warning
092 Continue with the boot process
093 A brief blank screen may be seen
094 The LXQt desktop login
095 Login as the ordinary user
096 Welcome to the LXQt desktop
097 Open a terminal
098 Start the QTerminal
099 Use su to become the root superuser
100 Begin a system update
101 Continue the software update
102 Install a few trivial software packages
103 Watch a few software pieces install
104 run neofetch
105 Shutdown the VMware Virtual machine
106 You are all done with install of Devuan Linux into a VMware Virtual machine
Let us now begin at step 0
