Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:24:07 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <200001280224.SAA05093@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:10:45 PST." <86640.949025445@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> > That's not correct; your DHCP configuration should reflect the hostname. > > > > Sysinstall doesn't fill in the hostname field because the crunched binary > > is missing the hostname(1) command. If we were to add that, it's just > > possible that we'd get hostnames working too. > > Actually, that's not quite true and hasn't been for awhile now: > > jkh@highwing-> grep hostname /usr/src/release/*conf* > /usr/src/release/boot_crunch.conf.generic:progs dhclient arp hostname In that case I can only assume that the dhclient-script is looking for it in the wrong place. The last snap I installed was around the 25th and it still failed to pick up the hostname. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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