New Install

[Krikket]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Philip Wyett wrote:
> 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.

Where?!?  Due to some bad hardware that I *was* going to use as a server,
I've gone through the Fedora install process at least half a dozen times
in the last few days, and I haven't seen it anywhere...

As for /etc/hosts I have three lines:

# (Commentary about not deleting the second line)
# (More commentary)

127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost

What should I be modifying?  I've tried playing around with both
occurances of "localhost".  If I modify the first, I get an error when I
try to enter Gnome.  If I modify the second, it appears to do nothing.
(Or is there yet another variable I have to change to see it reflected in
my shell prompt?)

Or am I missing something even more basic?

Krikket