This is a slight fork from last week's "Two New Questions" posting I made; and 
is not a Rivendell question per se, but I am bound to get more intelligent 
responses here than in most other forums.

I have a copy of RD running at home on a non-critical machine - if it blows up 
I can always return it to a proper state - so I don't feel bad about trying out 
live distros on this machine from time to time. However, the host name of my 
machine seems to change every time I try a demo disc, then reboot.

Under Puppy/Wary Linux, it forced the name of my machine to "PUPPYPC". Today, 
trying out Mint Linux, it was changed to "new-user". Both times I was unable to 
properly run Rivendell after I rebooted under CentOS, as the host names from 
the live discs seem to have stuck. I was under the impression that a live CD 
left your hard drive alone and didn't mess with anything. When exiting the live 
media, I never do "save-to-disc" for future sessions - if I don't like the 
distro demo, off it goes.

Clearly the solution is, "Don't run live distros on a Rivendell machine". But 
why on earth would these live discs go ahead and rewrite the host name?

Thanx ahead of time.
-AP
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