> -----Original Message----- > From: John Courie II [mailto:kernel-panic@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:06 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: ..:: [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question. > > > Hey all, My name is john and I am brand new to linux. I can > count the hours booted into linux in my fingers, but I got > sold on the F/OSS ideal and I am going to make this work. > > I installed FC2 last night and when it resolves my hostname > through eth0 > it is some long ass nonsense that it gets dynamiclly from COMCAST. > > I want to change that to be a name I pick > > I looked through the BASH manual and through a few orielly > books on tcpip, I googled and looked through some n00b > forums, no luck... > > How do I configure my system to have a custom name that shows > up on the prompt while still accepting and using the dynamic > IP sent from comcast? > > I understand that there are considerably more critical issues > that need to be adressed but I suspect that this question is > trivial to many of you and can be anwsered easily. > > any help would be greatly appreciated. > Hi, Since you are new to Linux, you might want to run system-config-network and select the NIC that is configured with DHCP, configure the hostname manually, and save and reboot. Yang
