Come to think of it, I have seen the behavior where the system appears to have done a reverse lookup of its self and set it's own hostname. :-) That's perfect. At what point during the install process does it do that? Thanks again for all of the great info everyone. Kit <div>On 8/30/07, Ed Brown <<a href="mailto:ebrown@lanl.gov">ebrown@lanl.gov</a> > wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">To say this another way, it is not necessary to enter hostname as a boot parameter, assuming the ip address can be resolved. Ed Brown wrote: > hostname won't be set during the %post scriptlet without some help, but > it should be set on reboot just fine. To set it for the sake of > commands in %post (for example, if you need to run cfengine): > > hostname `grep HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network |cut -d'=' -f2` > > But as the above implies, it should already be configured on reboot. > > -Ed > > > > Kit Stube wrote: >> That worked for the most part. Ed, your a genious! >> >> The only problem now is that it didn't set the hostname. Is there >> some way >> to use something like $hostname in post so I can set all that up? >> Perhaps that was what Pablo was trying to tell me? I don't >> understand how >> to process /proc/commandline. Does anyone have an example? >> I would be greatly appreciative. >> >> Kit >> >> >> >> On 8/30/07, Ed Brown <<a href="mailto:ebrown@lanl.gov">ebrown@lanl.gov</a>> wrote: >>>> boot: ip=blah gateway=blah netmask=blah dns=blah >>> This is not quite complete. And actually, we make a custom boot cd, >>> with multiple targets that contain the common parameters, so all >>> that's needed at the boot prompt is target, ip and gateway. You'll >>> probably need at least this: >>> >>> boot: linux ks=<a href="http://url_of_kickstart_file">http://url_of_kickstart_file</a> ip=... gateway=... >>> netmask=... dns=... >>> >>> -Ed >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Kickstart-list mailing list >>> <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com </a> >>> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kickstart-list mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> >> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com </a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> </blockquote></div>