Odd, did you try Johannes Liedtke YaST2 procedure? If you run this at root does it change your host name? hostname --file /etc/HOSTNAME This sounds like someting out of the Twilight Zone. I used Knoppix a couple of times and nothing like this happened, not even to that evil Windows partition. On Tuesday 01 July 2003 06:37 pm, Terry Milnes wrote:
Here is what happened: Power went out while downloading a file to /tmp. Remembered that I have SuSE setup to delete /tmp on boot. Decided to use KNOPPIX as a rescue CD and move file from /tmp to /home/terry. DID NOT INSTALL KNOPPIX TO HDD. Upon reboot my prompt has changed to user@KNOPPIX> and when I check my hostname it says KNOPPIX. I have changed /etc/HOSTNAME back to IOS.local to no avail. Is there somewhere else that KNOPPIX might have changed my config?
BTW I have been using SuSE since 6.2 days. I know my way around linux and SuSE in particular. I just have never seen a CD only linux change files on the HDD.
NeoFax Terry Milnes