I will be installing 4.7-RELEASE over ftp. I have a static DSL connection.
I have looked through all the relevent docs but I can not find the answer to
this:
Network config part of Sysinstall asks for a Host name and Domain name.
But, I do not yet have a domain name, so...
a) should I
Your hostname is simply the name of your computer. As any user, type
hostname at the shell prompt and it will return the name the computer
thinks it is (the FreeBSD default is Amnesiac).
If, as root, you type hostname (without the quotation marks, of course),
you make the hostname anything you
U CAN GIVE ANY HOST NAME E.G BSD.XYZ.COM IN /ETC/HOSTS
TO CONFIGURE THE NETOWK CARD LOOK AT THE DMESG OUTPUT
IT SHOWS U NETWORK CARD U HAVE . OR USE IFCONFIG U
CAN ALSO USE /STAND/SYSINSTALL TO CONFIGURE IT
REGARDS
SONAM SINGH
--- Tim Kellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your hostname is
Ummm... that's exactly what I said, wasn't it?
(apart from ithe ifconfig -u parto, I mean)
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, sonam singh wrote:
U CAN GIVE ANY HOST NAME E.G BSD.XYZ.COM IN /ETC/HOSTS
TO CONFIGURE THE NETOWK CARD LOOK AT THE DMESG OUTPUT
IT SHOWS U NETWORK CARD U HAVE . OR USE IFCONFIG U
