Hello all,
I'm deeply sorry to have created such a stir. My fault: it was a bad USB stick which I thought to be trustworthy.
The system boots fine with a new stick.
I will test fsmithred's new live iso soon and report back.

As of the wrong release notes: I saw this in my tests this summer: it's a preview, a test-release though.
Thank you all for your good work.
Have a nice evening.

Hello fsmithred
sorry to say:
your new live image cycles through devuan live boot menu endlessly (after a few secs after every possible selection)
(Did check sha256sum of course)
Computer 1: HP EliteBook 8460p
Computer 2: Dell Optiplex 780

I also tested the netinstall-iso with the same date on both computers.
devuan_freia_7.0-202610311659_amd64_netinstall.iso
it greets me before any boot-menu with:
fails to load com32.....
endlessly

Both computers did work with an older freia net-install.iso from May..

Completely agree with blackhole.
I only had bad experiences with nvidia cards. The nouveau driver works reasonably well, if not get rid the nvidia card.
It's not only the complicated use of these cards, but in my cases they caused intermittent system crashes, mostly at boot times and were not re-producible, in otherwise perfectly working hardware. Trying to search in the log-files: Hahaha

You could post you screen-dumps or image files here:
https://postimages.org/
and insert the link to your contribution here in the forum.

Good luck

In "Document Scanner" you can change the resolution to your liking. Try that.
I use Document Scanner, version 46.0
Xsane should do the same, just explore it.
Linux Devuan Excalibur & Cinnamon Desktop.

Devuan gave us a choice back: to have decent init systems. I thank them for that.
Anyone who knows what UNIX was, from the beginning to the end, can only appreciate a decent, well developed and transparent init system.
Sysvinit is certainly one of them. There are multiple init programs around now, and some of them are good as well. I mostly work with OpenRC, but I'm happy to come back to sysvinit for some cases.
Long live these rock-solid solutions, and a great thank-you to Devuan to have freed us from systemd and given us choices back. Right, why should anyone want to eliminate foundation-stones like vi, emacs, sh / bash, sysvinit, C, C++ etc?

Mostly yes.
If you do the status command as indicated by fsmithred, you will know.
Holds true usually for sysvinit and openrc.

That's correct, I tested the latest excalibur installer iso (6.1.1) and Networkmanager is still not patched. Your proposed workaround is still valid and fine.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63973#p63973 Entry #6

Hello,
can it be that you selected deb.devuan.org and not es.deb.devuan.org?
If so, there is a fair chance that the selection of deb.devuan.org did not work and the installer assumed "no network mirror available" and hence installed from CDROM instead.
The cause is often that some ISPs and their DNS infrastructure cannot deal with that kind of round-robin DNS name resolution.
It's an old topic here. Always select the mirror address that has your country's name prepended like es.deb.devuan.org.
I hope it helps.

@supusr:
Your printer Brother MFC-L2690DW is in the "driverless printer list" and can print using AirPrint.
When I have such a printer to connect:
- Connect it to your local network
- Make sure CUPS is fully installed
- Start everything
- And at log-in (Cinnamon) "Printer Connected" shows up.
Until now, this has worked with all Brother and most HP, Lexmark and other printer brands.
Maybe this helps:  https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=60751#p60751
And this: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=58428#p58428
And sure this: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=57101#p57101
That goes for Devuan Daedalus, Excalibur
I use OpenRC or sysvinit and Cinnamon or XFCE
I never have to worry about printers again. Good luck.

@greenjeans
you are a very valued member of that community and I (and surely many others) appreciate what you do. Bravo.
Please don't let you intimidate by ranters and those who like to play the judge to chide others.
You are a contributor, thank you.
Do the same as I do to get the nerves calm again: play music. You the guitar, I play the piano. Sweet melodies!