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I've done a netinstall and now when the computer rebooted, PXE cannot connect to the DHPC because I have the wrong MAC addess.

I tried changing my MAC address in /etc/network/interfaces but PXE doesn't seem to read this file.

Any idea on how I can change my MAC address so that I can continue the install and so that I don't have to reinstall everything?

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The solution where I edited /etc/network/interfaces is correct

the problem was that the partitioner set a logical partition as the boot partition, and this way the system never booted from the hard disk and tried to do a network boot.

the fix was to correct the bootable partition to a primary partition instead of a logical one.

This has happend because I run a dual boot and the Windows 7 OS sets 2 primary partitions. I set a partition to be common so there was no way my linux instalation could be on o primary partition because of the 4 primary partition limit.

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