Bug#172244: Problem using ext3

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debianlorg>]

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Pete Ryland 
> 
> | 1. hostname isn't set (not sure if this is a b-c thing or d-i).
> 
> joeyh: would it be ok to have base-config set the hostname if it is
> not set?  The network configuration tools would set it if network is
> used to install and if so, set it up, else base-config would ask.

I suspect you need to have a hostname set when debootstrap runs so exim
et al can copy it into the myriad of config files it is copied into.

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see shy jo