On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two
> messages as follows:
> 
> One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid
> host name.
> 
> Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and when I look at that, it
> says that the host is localhost with the ip address of 127.0.0.1, which
> is correct for local host.  Should there be another host name in there?

The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname
(or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). 


W


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