Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1599 mails)

[Jan Ritzerfeld <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2009 schrieb Chris Lincoln:

> I very clearly specified the hostname during the setup to be Caesium;
> However, for some unknown reason, OpenSUSE decided to use the hostname
> Beryllium instead. The only place I know of where it could have gotten
> the name from is my Windows 7 install, which has that hostname
> (Beryllium). However, Windows 7 is on a different hard drive. Is there a
> way to correct this? How could this have happened in the first place?
> [...].

If you use a DHCP server and let your openSUSE set the hostname via DHCP 
(DHCLIENT_SET_HOSTNAME="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp), you might get 
the hostname you gave to your Windows installation.

Gruß
 Jan
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