On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:14:58PM -0400, Greg Kettmann wrote:
> OK, first dumb question. How and where do I store the machine name?
> I'm running RH 7.1. Samba gets the server name from the host name.
> Setting host name using "hostname" doesn't seem to last through a boot.
> What is the proper procedure for permanently setting the host name?
/etc/sysconfig/network
>
> Second dumb question is a bit harder. It's not my choice, but my work
> laptop is W2K. I'd like to install Red Hat 7.1 on this machine, in
> addition to Windows, but am having multiple problems. It's using NTFS.
> I personally think W2K sucks just as much as W98SE (I think ME really
> sucks) so from that perspective don't mind rebuilding, however
> rebuilding is a ton of work. It has a 20Gb hard drive and was
> preloaded by my employer. As it stands now, I used Partition Magic to
> peel 2.5 Gb's off the end. However, they are beyond the 1024 limit, so
> I can't set up a bootable partition. Between the 1024 limit and the
> NTFS I seem to be out of choices.
I think this is the second message about this I've seen this week.
With RH 7.1, you should be able to do this, assuming your BIOS
supports it. If you've got a fairly new machine, you shouldn't have a
problem. I did it on my Toshiba:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2101 16876251 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 2102 2105 32130 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2106 3648 12394147+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2106 2233 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2234 2249 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 2250 3648 11237436 83 Linux
I don't remember the details, but judging by the above I used fdisk to
partition manually (since if there's already a primary partition, the
red hat installer generally creates only logical partitions in the
extended partition)... I do remember the installer warning me that
this might not work, but it did.
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