Re: Detecting hostname

[Marian Marinov <mmetzner intergenia de>]

Brian Long wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:56 +0200, Marian Marinov wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm using kickstart files for more then 4 months now and I still have 
> > one annoing problem. When the installations starts it is trying to find 
> > the reverse address of the machine and freezes for 1-2 min.
> > Is there a way to disable this with any boot option change in the initrd?
>
>
> If you pass --hostname hostname.domainname in the network line, the
> reverse lookup will not happen.
>
> /Brian/

Many thanks Brian. My installations are now working as a charm.
Again Thanks

Regards
  Marian