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system will be automatically configured. If you have deselected the Automatic Confi-
guration, the manual system configuration starts.
3.11.1 Automatic System Configuration
Having rebooted, the system starts the Automatic Configuration. This routine attempts
to configure your network and Internet access and sets up your hardware. The whole
process does not need any interaction. You can change the settings made by the Auto-
matic Configuration at any time in the installed system with YaST. Continue with
Section "Novell Customer Center Configuration" (page 42).
3.11.2 Manual System Configuration
Having rebooted, the system starts the manual configuration. If the configuration fails
at one of the steps of this stage, it restarts and continues from the last successful step.
Hostname and Domain Name
The hostname is the computer's name in the network. The domain name is the name of
the network. A hostname and domain are proposed by default. If your system is part
of a network, the hostname has to be unique in this network, whereas the domain name
has to be common to all hosts on the network.
In many networks, the system receives its name over DHCP. In this case it is not nec-
essary to modify the proposed hostname and domain name. Select Change Hostname
via DHCP instead. To be able to access your system using this hostname, even when
it is not connected to the network, select Write Hostname to /etc/hosts. If you often
change networks without restarting the desktop environment (e.g. when switching be-
tween different WLANs), do not enable this option, because the desktop system may
get confused when the hostname in /etc/hosts changes.
To change hostname settings at any time after installation, use YaST Network Devices
> Network Settings. For more information, see Section "Configuring the Network Card
with YaST" (Chapter 19, Basic Networking, ↑Administration Guide).
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