Detecting hostname

Marian Marinov mmetzner at intergenia.de
Wed Dec 14 14:32:30 UTC 2005


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




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