On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > If you take the default DHCP option, you'll get the behavior you saw. I > > believe that if you had assigned a static IP at install time, you would > > have seen the behavior you expected. > > Nope, he wouldn't. Anaconda generates /etc/hosts file with only one > line: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain hostname > hostname.domain. I'm correcting this in kickstart postinstall script > since days of 7.3 (or maybe even before?) Hmm. You may be right about that. At home, I use /etc/hosts to resolve names on my local net, so I keep copying that over to new installs, but I've been using DHCP to assign fixed IPs based on MAC addresses since I figured out how to do it (almost since I *had* a home network of more than one machine), so I must have misremembered. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
