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I am facing similar problems with my NIC. It takes the ip address but when i ping to my router, it allows 3 packets through then drops 11 packets and this sequence repeats itself.<BR>
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Without the erp5 cd all is fine.<BR>
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-SB<BR>
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On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 18:21 +0100, david atlan (PHENO) wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Dear Kevin,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it worked fine with deleting the content of /mnt/erp5_cd and ERP5 starts.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have a little problem with the configuration of the Internet connection: </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the test machine is connected to a router with DHCP server, but it doesn't </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">take the IP address? Is there anything I can try?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">thanks</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">David</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:11:51 +0100, Kevin Deldycke <<A HREF="mailto:kevin@nexedi.com">kevin@nexedi.com</A>> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Le Vendredi 17 Février 2006 14:32, Kevin Deldycke a écrit :</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Le Vendredi 17 Février 2006 13:51, david atlan (PHENO) a écrit :</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> > Hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> > I have a PC on which I had formatted the HD with the 1.0RC3 liveCD. I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> > would like now to upgrade my test system to the 1.0RC8 version and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> > thought I could just again format the HD, but this is not possible. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> When</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> > I chose the option to format the disk, I get: "your hard disk has been</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> > reformatted already".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> > To upgrade from RC3 to RC8 what do I actually need to do? Just change </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> > cdrom?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> In theory, just changing the CD-Rom is enough.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Between rc3 and rc8, ERP5 has evolve a lot so the persistent data on </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> your</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> current HDD could be outdated. In this case, and If the data and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> configuration of your previous ERP5 has no value and can be destroyed, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> then</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> yes, you can reformat your HDD.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> FYI, the Live CD don't let you reformat your HDD if a previous </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> installation</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> of ERP5 is found. I think it could be great to let the user do it. I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> would</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> like to add this feature in a future release of live cd.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Anyway, if you want to erase your HDD, delete the content of </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> /mnt/erp5_cd,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> then reboot your machine. You will have the default welcome screen that </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> ask</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> you if you want to erase your HDD.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> In fact the only file to delete is /mnt/erp5_cd/.erp5cd</FONT>
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