Bug 68162

Summary:	Installer should allow you to specify a host name when you use dhcp
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Dan de Haan <zeron>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	clumens, wtogami
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2005-03-01 21:39:25 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Dan de Haan 2002-07-07 06:51:56 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020625

Description of problem:
When you select DHCP to configure you ehternet interface, the installer should
still allow you to specify a hostname.

Some newtorks assign an address based on the name the dhcp client provides, and
others (such as mine) set up a dynamic dns entery poiting to the name you define.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2002-07-08 17:44:00 UTC

Are you seeing this with TUI or the GUI installer?

Comment 2 Dan de Haan 2002-07-15 05:03:59 UTC

GUI

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-12 21:51:42 UTC

Please try with the latest limbo release.

Comment 4 Dan de Haan 2002-08-13 01:07:56 UTC

The installer lets you supply a hostname to use with dhcp, but that hostname is
not passed to te dhcp server in the dhcp request.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-14 19:52:11 UTC

That would be a problem with the initscripts most likely.

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2005-03-01 20:48:22 UTC

For something like this, the installer would need to write DHCP_HOSTNAME="that
hostname" in the ifcfg file.