Re: changing hostname from debian to something else in live installation

[Derrick Karpo <dkarpo@gmail.com>]

Hello.

Hopefully in the "better late than never category", you can accomplish
this by placing directives in a
"includes.chroot/etc/live/config.conf.d/custom.conf" (you can call
"custom.conf" anything you want as long as it ends in .conf) with
contents as follows:

  LIVE_HOSTNAME=your-custom-name
  LIVE_USERNAME=user
  LIVE_USER_FULLNAME="user"

See https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual.en.html#521
for more documentation.

Derrick

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:06 AM andy pugh <bodgesoc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Sept 2021 at 21:37, Harshad Joshi <firewalrus@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes Michael, you are absolutely right. This is the question for which I am trying to find an answer for quite long time. I hope tech gods and their angels will answer my prayer 😄🙏
>
> You can "preseed" the responses to the installer (I use this to _not_
> create a root password, for example)
>
> I think that might work, but I am not sure if you can leave the new
> default entry editable.
>
> <google> It seems that you can:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs05.en.html#preseed-seenflag
>
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