On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:00:17 -0800, Captain Dondo wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:51:43 -0600, Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>> The name asked for during installation *is* the hostname and is found not
>> only in /etc/hosts but in /etc/myname also.
>
> Is there a way to set this via DHCP at boot instead of in a file name?

I use static addressing but you might look at dhclient.conf(5).