Question about loading Red Hat 7.2

[Linuxenigma]

Hello everyone. I just got Red Hat 7.2 and I installed it tonight. However, weird thing happened that i was hoping someone might be able to help me with...

When I load up 7.2, I come into the text login screen which is fine. The question I have is this:

On the login screen I see this:

Red Hat Linux Release 7.2 (Enigma)
Kernal blah blah blah
schoolglue login:

Ok, normally where schoolglue is, its normally localhost. My question is why is it schoolglue? I never specified anything for that name to show up.

One thing that pops in my mind is that, my Windows computer I named schoolglue and I used a bootdisk to boot to the drive I installed 7.2 (which is its own drive...no dualbooting here.) I used a program called GDISK from Symantec to wipe the drive...

So im trying to figure out how and why schoolglue got put in their...could it be from the diskette I used to boot to and wipe the drive with? It was just a normal bootdisk to get me to the a:/. I put GDISK on the boot disk. Its a small program, roughly 300k and you execute it by typing GDISK....

Anybody have any ideas?

[error27]

cat /etc/hostname

I think some dhcp clients change hostname each time you boot up but I could be wrong...

[asymblor]

Ya have to be more clear as to what you want.

I'm assuming you want a totally clean

install, If this is the case and something

like that happened??? I would suggest you

totally re-format your drive.

[Linuxenigma]

Ya, I was just inquiring as to why it put schoolglue in the place of where localhost usually is. Just curious as to why really.

Thought about reformatting. Before I go onto that, is their a way to change it from schoolglue back to localhost?

One last question, any recommendations on a way to format a drive? What I mean is, i currently have a Windows bootdisk that I boot to, then use gdisk to wipe the drive...
Does anyone have any other recommendations, suggestions or tips for formatting the drive? New utilities, maybe use a linux boot disk?

Thanks everyone.

[Hena]

You computers (host) name in "/etc/HOSTNAME" file. Now if you want to change the name, change that. However, if you are using computer with nic and your ip is given out by dhcp there are some differences, dependeing from the dhcp system used there. I've used to different dhcp systems and only one with linux. Now the linux one has name in dhcp server as well, which was given out during registering. Now that name is automatically given out to my box even without "/etc/HOSTNAME" file.

[asymblor]

yeah,

I messed with this a while back so my memory may be cloudy about the whole topic but....

The reason I wiped my disk in the first place is on multiple install attempts of rht, on a regular dual boot system using disk druid for the purposes of having a win98/Linux system I was getting all kinds of weird errors ie the install would hang, certain functions in rht wouldnt work once I got it running and so on.

So I finally just decided to reformat:

From windows I rebooted into dos and ran the
<format c:> command then from a win boot floppy I used Fdisk to partition. reinstalled Win & then re-installed Rht and everything worked fine, That is until I wanted 2k/98/linux on the same system and did a low level format followed by system commander. But this is a whole diff story LOL

[StanLin]

Try this:
In your /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain YourFavouriteName

In your /etc/sysconfig/network file:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=YourFavouriteName

The name must be in the two files.
Reboot.