>>>>> "HM" == Hunter Matthews <thm@xxxxxxxx> writes: HM> I looked at doing this - would you send the list the code you use? Well, my ks.cfg files are generated from a script; I give it the hostname and a few other things (OS rev to install, whether X should run, video RAM for unsupported cards, etc.) and it spits out a complete ks.cfg file that gets pulled from a web server. This is part of what gets put in %post: # # Hostname resolution # cat <<EOF > /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 XHOSTNAMEX XSHORTNAMEX localhost.localdomain localhost [other hosts hidden] EOF XHOSTNAMEX and XSHORTNAMEX are replaced with the long and short hostname. Except for running OpenMosix, I've never seen any reason to put the IP address of the host in its /etc/hosts file. - J<