Just put 8.1/b3 up.
Did an upgrade to 8.1b2 and things appeared to go smoothly except when it
was time to reboot it hung (running a Duron on an Asus A7V133 mb with 12MB).
Waited over 10 minutes at the same screen and didn't see any disk activity
so I reset the machine. The next boot brought me to a "maintenance" login
to fix disk problems so it looks like it hung with an outstanding "sync" in
the queue. So I ran fsck and just said yes to every "Fix it?" prompt.
We'll see what if anything comes back to haunt me.
My Canon BJC4300, direct connected to LPT, seems to have died. It didn't
work under 8.1b2 or Debian. It had been working under Debian and SUSe 7.1.
So I tried to connect to either/both the HP855C or Lexmark Z22 served out by
my WIn2K box. No amount of playing games with the printer set-up wizard
would allow me to print. This leads to a question. Should the SMB server
name have been entered in the form of "server_name" or "\\server_name" or
"//server_name"? Similarly should the printer share be "share_name",
"\share_name" or "/share_name"? I tried connecting with both
"Administrator" and another local user name. Nothing seems to work. When I
tried printing the test pages I could see the briefest bit of activity on
network - the LEDs on the Netgear switch would blink once or twice.
I was somewhat surprised that the package manager ran out to CD1 (which just
happened to be in the drive) and brought a package - CUPS I think. When I
thought about it for a second it made complete sense since I had skipped
printer installation as part of the upgrade.
Any hints greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
-rick
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