marchem Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 I'm trying to use the 7.7 Disaster Recovery CD to restore a hosed XP machine from my backup server. The CD boots fine, but when I go to "Restore as a Client" it lists the IP address as 127.0.0.1. When this machine was working it always got it's IP address from a DHCP server, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be able to do that now. Reading through old posts it looked like with the 7.6 Disaster Recovery there was a way to edit the recovery CD and define a static IP address. But I can't find any of the same files on the 7.7 CD (not surprising). Any way to use a static IP with the 7.7 CD? Or thoughts as to why the machine can't get an IP address from the DHCP server? It's a Dell Dimension 440, circa 2002, with a CNET PRO200WL PCI NIC. Thanks, Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marchem Posted August 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Problem solved (I think). This time I tried a different wall jack, and waited longer after loading the NIC driver. Not sure which of those did the trick, but this time it found a good DHCP address. Now let's hope they restore works ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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