I think that it would be great to be able to specificy the hostname that will be reqistered with the DHCP server (and, by extension) Dynamic DNS (if it is configured). Right now, the hostname is knoppix. The way our dynamic DNS is set up, conflicts between hosts with the same name result in the second one being incremented with a -<number>.

So the first one to boot is knoppix.dhcp.example.com. The second conflicts so it is incremented as knoppix-1.dhcp.example.com and so on down the line.

I have handed out so many knoppix discs and our DHCP leases are so long on campus that this is beginning to become a problem.

If I just had the ability to pass the name that I would like to be registered during a bootup cheatcode, I could differentiate my system (so that I can find it when it is in server mode) more easily.

So, Klaus (and everyone else) what do you think?

thanks.