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Topic: Changing Host Name, Box to box1 etc

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aorta

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Joined: June 2005

Posted: 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)

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Joined: Oct. 2004

Posted: 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.