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Posted: May 06 2004,15:02 QUOTE
How do I permanently change the hostname on a hd-install?

Also how do I let other machines on my network know the name of this computer especially XP....
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Posted: May 06 2004,16:18 QUOTE
bring up a terminal
sudo su    #become root
scite /etc/hosts
replace box with your host name
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Posted: May 07 2004,08:49 QUOTE
I did that, but it still asks me to log onto box. The prompt also still says box.

And now it says this when I try to sudo su:
sudo: unable to lookup box via getHostbyname()

If I ping from my XP machine it still says it can't find the host both with box and my new hostname.
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Posted: May 07 2004,11:51 QUOTE
There is a line in /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig that says:
hostname box

I had to change this to make it work. But still it isn't available by hostname from a xp machine anybody know how?
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