[SunHELP] Where does OS get the hostid ona Intel machine?

[Edward Chase]

The hostname is part of the OS configuration.  If you dual boot the machine 
one OS could refer to the machine as one name, the other OS could refer to 
the machine as another name.

DHCP and DNS will present it's own issues if you want to use different names.


At 10:44 AM 10/23/2001 -0400, Meng, Andrew wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Can anyone tell me where OS get the hostid for Intel Solaris machine? If I
>install Linux on the same intel machine, do I get the same hostid. The
>reason that I am asking is that some software license is linked to the
>hostid.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Andrew

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