Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

[Mike Smith]

> > That's not correct; your DHCP configuration should reflect the hostname.
> > 
> > Sysinstall doesn't fill in the hostname field because the crunched binary 
> > is missing the hostname(1) command.  If we were to add that, it's just 
> > possible that we'd get hostnames working too.
> 
> Actually, that's not quite true and hasn't been for awhile now:
> 
> jkh@highwing-> grep hostname /usr/src/release/*conf*
> /usr/src/release/boot_crunch.conf.generic:progs dhclient arp hostname

In that case I can only assume that the dhclient-script is looking for it 
in the wrong place.  The last snap I installed was around the 25th and it 
still failed to pick up the hostname.

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