From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 12:47:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA8337B406 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:47:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MSILVER@scana.com) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id PAA24958; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:47:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from maildmis.scana.com(161.156.252.90) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma024848; Thu, 14 Jun 01 15:46:22 -0400 Received: by maildmis.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:46:22 -0400 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'Will Senn'" , Freebsd-Questions Subject: RE: ftp install question Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:46:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I frankly don't know the answer to your question, but there are indications that dhclient (the dhcp client) pull the hostname info from rc.conf. So as Gerald mentioned, there might be a way to set it during the setup process. I have setup up several computers via FTP, however I just don't remember the process well enough to explain how to do it. ...Michael... -----Original Message----- From: Will Senn [mailto:wsenn@postfuture.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:28 PM To: Freebsd-Questions; SILVER, MICHAEL A Subject: RE: ftp install question Michael said: -I think his problem is his dhcp server expects a hostname to be passed to -it. Does FreeBSD have the ability to do this with the ftp install? Exactly! Does it? Appreciate the clarification, Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message