>> o Does Linux have any way of knowing the hostname that was set in MacOS X?? >> When starting Linux, my Powerbook suddenly had the hostname "CWalthers >> PowerBook G3" that I had given it in MacOS X instead of the normal >> "localhost", and I'm pretty sure that I had never mentioned "CWalthers >> PowerBook G3" to Linux (because I suspected that Linux would not support >> hostnames with spaces in them, while I expect MacOS (X) not to allow me to >> do things that don't work). > > The only way I know that would be picked up is if it's provided by a dhcpd > server.
Hmm - I use a DHCP server - but why on earth would the DHCP server of my internet provider set the hostname to something I made up? In fact, my hostname usually gets set to something like "dclient217-162-184-113" by the DHCP server. >> o I haven't been able to get Mac-On-Linux to recognize my CD drive. I added >> "blkdev: /dev/hdc -cd -boot" to /etc/molrc, and all I get when starting MOL >> is >> ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc1: No such device >> ... > > Never tried booting MOL from CD. I have the same entry here, without > -boot. I've now got it to work by making /dev/cdrom a symlink to /dev/hdc and specifying "blkdev: /dev/cdrom -cd -boot" in molrc. It seems that MOL doesn't really look at /dev/hdc when you tell it to, but only the individual partitions /dev/hdc1.../dev/hdc15.
