See the presentation I did two years ago for a good way to set the hostname in the %post: www.shabazian.com/lw2007.pdf -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeroen van Meeuwen Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:33 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: --hostname not applied to system Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > Hi there, > > with Fedora 10 GA i386, I've found that > > network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=yes > --hostname=host.domain.tld > > isn't always applied to the installed system. The installed system would > come up with localhost.localdomain as the hostname. > From the cobbler mailing list, it seems that this is an issue in EL5 as well. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list