From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 15: 2:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDB31529C for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA04338; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:01:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:01:59 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: farid@connection.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help me please! In-Reply-To: <36e84a5b.4e6a.0@connection.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 farid@connection.com wrote: > I'm having some trouble, when I installed FreeBSD it asked me for a hostname > and a domainname. I just put fserv as host name and no domainname. Now when > I start it says something like: My_unqualified_hostname and sometimes Get_hostname > failed. I tried changing it by typing hostname 'new_hostname' but when i reboot > again it is back to the old hostname. How can i change it properly and what > is a good hostname and domain name? Is there a rule? If this pc is *not* connected to the Internet just make up a name and enter it in /etc/rc.conf hostname="fserv.my.domain" And then make sure to add that to /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost fserv.my.domain > Also my cd-rom driver doesn't work properly. It detects it at the beginig > and then when i cd to /cdrom there are no files in there. Do i have to mount > somehow? Yes, you have to mount it, and unmount it before removing the media. You'll need an entry like /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 in /etc/fstab. That's a SCSI CD, an IDE is wcd0a (I think) Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message