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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS's tcpip - doesn't work for me !
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:23:49 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- Message-ID: <1ikutlINNsji@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <1ihirtINN1bg@psun2.hmi.de>
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- pfr@psun2.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
-
- >In view of all the apparent frustration by the maintainers of faq's and
- >doc's I feel bad about it, but still I cannot get tcpip to run.
-
- >Someone hinted to me that 'define' the host name means a command
- >'hostname <hostname>'. I did that and indeed, now the install.net
- >script inserts my hostname where it used to have 'softland' before.
- >But alas, next time I boot there is again 'softland' for hostname!
- >So. how can I make my hostname permanent, please? I may have more problems
- >but there is no hope before I can clear this one.
-
- >Besides, I refuse, to this point, to 'compile' anything because I don't want
- >to get into trouble with gcc. Personally I will never make use of gcc for
- >my work. So I changed the settings of my WD8013 card to the default values,
- >assuming that this is a valid approach. (the description which comes with
- >the SLS package mentions changing parameters in linux/net/Makefile but truely
- >I cannot find this path/file anywhere on my disk).
-
- >Wolfgang Fritsch
- >pfr@psun2.hmi.de
-
- Try looking through all the other boot files and see if softland gets set
- there. Also, change your /usr/etc/inet/hosts table to reflect your new
- name as well.
-
- I don't see how you can expect to have a unix style system running and never
- have to compile anything. The file you mentioned not being able to find is
- in the kernel source. In order to make those changes you will have to recompile.
- I really don't see the problem with using the compiler. How would you
- "get into trouble with gcc"? This compiler has been stable and running fine
- for close to a year now.
-
- James
-