how to tweak hostname in custom live cd

[faz]

hi,
I'd like to create a live cd changing the default hostname but all the tests I've done had no results, do you have a tip?

thank you very much!
fabrizio

[Burke]

I believe you can just edit the file /etc/hostname

I haven't tried it myself, but I think it should work.

You also might want to change your hostname in /etc/hosts so that your computer knows your new hostname is really 127.0.0.1

[faz]

I believe you can just edit the file /etc/hostname

I haven't tried it myself, but I think it should work.

You also might want to change your hostname in /etc/hosts so that your computer knows your new hostname is really 127.0.0.1

it does not work because netcfg overwrite it
i'm doing some other tests right now

thanks anyway
bye
fabrizio

[faz]

Tollef Fog Heen told me that:
I guess you might want to change the

Template: netcfg/get_hostname
Type: string
Default: ubuntu

in netcfg-1.16ubuntu1/debian/netcfg-common.templates. Note that you
need to rebuild the initrd with the new netcfg available to the build
process to get the new default.

I still have to find how to rebuild initrd but I think that would be not a problem.
thank you tollef

[bazzer]

Did anyone end up with a solution to this?
I've noticed that
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string my-hostname
doesn't work in a preseed file...