Anaconda and boot.iso as of 2004-08-09, assuming this is anaconda-10.0.2-0.20040806112009 On my small home network I do only use an external DNS. Thus when doing an NFS/FTP/HTTP installation I do not enter a primary nameserver in the "Configure TCP/IP". Still anaconda is trying to look up the host name for the machine. Since there is no DNS server providing the machine with a name this fails. You could thus save the time spent searching by skipping this step and setting a default host name. Guess this needs to be fixed in loader2/net.c. Maybe loaderData->noDns is not set if the DNS string is empty?
Sure, committed to CVS
Works fine for me. Thanks for this quick fix.