Comment 25 for bug 628087

I tried putting in the string that Evan suggested but it didn't work for me - perhaps I was adding it in the wrong place... Any suggestions on that? Does it have to be in particular place?

Either way, this seems overly complicated just to be able to choose a hostname at install time. This is something that's likely to hurt people that have multiple machines more than those than operate just one - as people with multi-machine networks are in more need to easily set hostnames. I like the idea of an auto-populating field that I can change - and certainly appreciate that creating an "Advanced" GUI just for this is not the right route. Worst case for me is that the field is not included and I end up having to use the Alternative install CD, but the partition tool in that is a lot less friendly especially when, like me, you've got separate partitions for /home and swap.