Changing Host Name

Forum: Networking
Topic: Changing Host Name
started by: aorta

Posted by aorta on June 16 2005,16:45

Hi

I am building alot of old machines onto an existing network it has DHCP but I am concerned that they all have the host name box

How can I change this before they go live and would it be easy to set a static IP address.

I am a linux newbie but enjoying the process so far

Aorta (Phil)

Posted by green on June 16 2005,18:25

I did a search of the forums using:

ip AND static

with:

All open forums

and:

This month and older

This is what I found:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....+static >

It'll answer some of your questions.

Posted by clivesay on June 16 2005,19:12

Boot the liveCD with the boot option 'host=boxname' with boxname being what you want to call it. It's that easy.

Chris