New Install

Philip Wyett philip at wyett.net
Sun Dec 21 05:57:41 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 05:43, Krikket wrote:
> I've recently switched over my laptop from SuSE 9.0 to Fedora Core 1.  So
> far I like what I see.
> 
> Unfortunately for me, there are a few things that are different in the
> distributions that have me stumped.  I'm hoping someone out there can lend
> me a pointer or two...
> 
> 1>  Assign the machine name.  With SuSE, I could either change a setting
> in YaST or edit /etc/HOSTNAME to set the machine name from "localhost" to
> "serenity".  (Or anything else I wanted...)  This file doesn't appear to
> exist with Fedora.  How do I set it?
> 

You could have set this at install time, but see in /etc/hosts.

Regards

Phil

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