I just tried to install 8.0 beta 3 for the first time.
(System is a Matsonic 8308 with on-board video, sound, ethernet, 700
MHz Duron, 192 MB Ram. On board ethernet is disabled to use a 10 mbit
Coax ethernet (Realtek 1029(??), I forget the number right now, but the
installation autodetected it and seemed to configure the network
properly.)
1. I configured a local printer which worked fine (almost -- I'll come
back to this), then I went to configure a remote printer using the SMB/
option. At this point the installation hung. Based on the message at
the bottom of the screen, the system might have been looking for the
printer. The computer with that printer was on, that printer was on,
and the network was and is working. (The machine I am installing on is
a dual boot with Windows -- networking and sharing of the printer is
working fine in windows.) (I don't know whether the system really tries
to look for the remote printer or not.)
2. The configuration of the local printer went fine on the second
install attempt. (The installation hung at the SMB printer install on
both attempts.) On the first attempt to install the local printer, I
tried a printer driver that turned out to be the wrong printer driver,
and it dumped a ton of garbage to the printer that printed multiple
pages (of garbage). Is there a way to kill a bad print job like that
within the installation, or must I shut off the printer and computer,
reboot, and restart the installation?
3. Also, after selecting packages, it told me I was about to install 3
servers, (cups, postfix, and webmim, IIRC) and asked me if I really
wanted to. I answered no because I did not want postfix installed, but
there was no additional choice after that -- presumably it didn't
install any of the three. (I don't know the final result, because the
installation failed at the printer install -- when I started a reinstall
I said yes at that point.)
Don't have any more comments at this point -- in the midst of the third
installation attempt -- this time I will not attempt to install the
remote printer.
Randy Kramer
