There are two ways to have Devuan run on your computer:
1) Build it from scratch.
I have done it using the official Debian/Devuan tools debootstrap and chroot. Not an overly complicated thing to do, anyone with basic reading skills can do it and I'm going to post my little howto.
2) However, there's a ridiculously simple, "easier done, than said" method.
You can use any Debian Wheezy (or Jessie, but Wheezy would be better) and upgrade it to Devuan. For example, we can use DebianDog Wheezy and turn it into Devuan with the following steps:
1) /apt/sources.lst - Comment out all other lines in your sources.list and add the following
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deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie main
deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-updates main
deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main
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apt-get update && apt-get install devuan-baseconf devuan-keyring && apt-get update
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The following NEW packages will be installed:
devuan-baseconf devuan-keyring
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 352 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 115 kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
devuan-baseconf devuan-keyring
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie/main devuan-baseconf all 0.6.4+devuan1 [4270 B]
Get:2 http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie/main devuan-keyring all 2015.05.05 [15.8 kB]
Fetched 20.1 kB in 0s (44.1 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package devuan-baseconf.
(Reading database ... 25504 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking devuan-baseconf (from .../devuan-baseconf_0.6.4+devuan1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package devuan-keyring.
Unpacking devuan-keyring (from .../devuan-keyring_2015.05.05_all.deb) ...
Setting up devuan-baseconf (0.6.4+devuan1) ...
Setting up devuan-keyring (2015.05.05) ...
OK
.............
... Done
root@debian:~#
3) and this one
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cp /etc/apt/preferences.d/avoid-systemd /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-systemd
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Package: systemd-sysv
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: systemd
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: systemd
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1
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apt-get autoremove --purge systemd libsystemd-login0 && apt-get upgrade
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apt-get install systemd
https://devuan.org
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=93225
edit cleaned up the opening post and converted the attached images to jpeg to reduce their size.