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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859475110-20042006>Reluctantly, I think
I may have to give up trying to find out more about ERP5 for the moment - at
least from the 1.0rc9 LiveCD. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=859475110-20042006>I have successfully downloaded the ISO torrent (md5
checked out) and burnt the CD, but have failed to complete the installation
on 4 different systems.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=859475110-20042006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859475110-20042006>I've set out the
details below for reference.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=859475110-20042006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859475110-20042006>1) On a CentOS
4.2-based system with 1GB RAM, all proceeds happily until the web page
localhost:8080/cgi-bin/index.cgi starts up with the message 'Error could not
find or create the directory "erp5cd" ...'. Indeed there's nothing under
/mnt/storage, so that seems consistent. The system uses a SATA disk so
maybe Mandriva still doesn't recognize them.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859475110-20042006>2) On a server with
VMware 5.5, I have a Centos 4.3 VM with 1.5GB RAM that behaves almost
identically to 1). I don't know what the disk drive looks like through VMware,
but doubt that it's pretending to be SATA.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859475110-20042006>3) On a blank VMware
Linux VM with 1.5GB RAM, I tried to reformat the disk after CD boot (from the
option on the page 'Error could not find or create the directory "erp5cd"), but
that ceased after a few seconds with the message that the formatting had failed
and the the partition was inoperable.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=859475110-20042006>4</SPAN>) On a
Dell Latitude D610 laptop under Windows XP, after preparation described in the
readme (c:\erp5cd\fs.img with fully open permissions), LiveCD booting starts but
early on in the process drops into a restricted shell. There may be things on
the laptop that are forcing this (I'm using Acronis OS Selector to
select boot partitions, for example), but it's not my preferred system to
do this on.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859475110-20042006>On all 4
systems, the splash screen at the start of bootup has a very strange look - you
can see "Welcome to ERP5 LiveCD" Ok but the rest of the screen is just fragments
of colour. Maybe this is an indicator of a problem. Are there MD5s for the
individual elements on the LiveCD anywhere?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=859475110-20042006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=859475110-20042006>On the 3 Linux
systems (maybe also the Windows, I can't remember) there was a failure at the
point "loading basic CDROM modules for Kernel 2.6" during Mandriva booting.
There was also a failure at "starting system logger". I'm not sure if these are
significant.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=859475110-20042006>Geoff</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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