Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Krikket um 07:49: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Krikket um 06:43: > > > I've recently switched over my laptop from SuSE 9.0 to Fedora Core 1. So > > > far I like what I see. > > > > > > Unfortunately for me, there are a few things that are different in the > > > distributions that have me stumped. I'm hoping someone out there can lend > > > me a pointer or two... > > > > > > 1> Assign the machine name. With SuSE, I could either change a setting > > > in YaST or edit /etc/HOSTNAME to set the machine name from "localhost" to > > > "serenity". (Or anything else I wanted...) This file doesn't appear to > > > exist with Fedora. How do I set it? > > > > The hostname is to be set in /etc/sysconfig/network. > > When I edited that and /etc/hosts *and* /etc/sysconfig/network, it worked! > Thank you! > > > > 2> Keyboard layout. I'm not going to bother with the SuSE method. What > > > I'm trying to do is to be able to change keyboards from a US English > > > keyboard layout to a Russian (Cyrillic) keyboard layout. I've discovered > > > by right clicking on the bottom task bar in Gnome, I've been able to add a > > > "kayboard layout" tool, and even set [Alt-Right Shift] to switch between > > > the virtual keyboards. Unfortunately, this doesn't actually change the > > > keyboard layout. I'm still getting letters from the English alphabet
