Willie Wong wrote: >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > > >>Hi All, >> >>The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two >>messages as follows: >> >>One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid >>host name. >> >>Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and when I look at that, it >>says that the host is localhost with the ip address of 127.0.0.1, which >>is correct for local host. Should there be another host name in there? >> >> > >The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname >(or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). > > >W > > > > I don't have a /etc/hostname file, I just have a hosts file. Did I do something wrong? My computer is a stand alone, but I connect to the internet via cable modem.
Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
