RE: system name in %post of ks.cfg

[Kevin Jackson <kevin jackson tradermedia co uk>]

Just add the paramater --hostname host to the network config lines in your
kickstart config:

network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname yourhostname

(or amened if static)

Kev

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]
On Behalf Of David Grierson
Sent: 23 September 2004 15:30
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: system name in %post of ks.cfg


Hi,

The hostname's figured out from the reverse lookup of the IP address 
assigned from DHCP. If it can't resolve the name it uses the default of 
"localhost.localdomain".

Alternatively you could do something `clever' with the %post section of 
your kickstart file to modify /etc/sysconfig/network.

Dg.

Ben Fitzgerald wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Recently I installed a few linux systems with kickstart but when I 
> tried to get the hostname I got localhost.localdomain.
> 
> Is there a variable for this or need I get it from 
> /etc/sysconfig/network?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

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