Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

[Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>]

Please stop top posting (which is putting your reply above the original
message) - it makes the thread hard to follow.

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

>> >I have no hostname file in /etc

>> So create an "/etc/hostname" file, and in it have your computer's
>> hostname.

> Ugh, don't know how to, yet.  Could you give me the command or referenct?

1) Login as root
2) Run this command:

echo "[name]" > /etc/hostname

[name] is the name you want to assign to the computer

Adam