Hm, you can' t use the hostname to set the hostname, but you can use what you get from a dhcp server as hostname. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/104918/how-to-get-hostname-from-dhcp-server and https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1533#section-3.14 for that.
Sorry to insist here., but while I understand that you don't want to hardcode "ubuntu" or anything else, a programmatical try to give the computer the most meaningful name available cannot be an "invalid" bug, can it? So IMHO Ubiquity should (in this order) 1. look what a possible DHCP server offers 2. look at the bios provided name and write the first possible hostname as suggestion into the box. Why is this bug invalid? If you don't want to fix it because of other opinion (which is perfectly ok, you own Ubuntu), mark it as "Won't fix". IMHO getting a better hostname by workarounding a provider's "stupid" fault is an enhancement of Ubiquity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/743070 Title: ubiquity sets wrong computer's name To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/743070/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
