Brief background - I am remastering a KNOPPIX 5.1.1 CD for Disaster recovery. We have 200 users, and in the event of a hurricane, I want to be able to grab our old bareboned PC's out of storage, set them up in a temporary office, pop in the KNOPPIX CD and have them automaticall boot up, grab an IP, and connect via Ctrix client to out storage center.

KNOPPIX is able to do all of that. It's a wonderful product, although I admit it took this Windows guy a bit of getting used to).

Problem - When I boot two PC's with my remastered KNOPPIX CD, everything works beatufully. Except one thing. Both PC's show the same hostname in the DNS server. Both are named KNOPPIX. I need these PC's to have unigue names. My initial thought is to append the MAC address to the hostname KNOPPIX. For example KNOPPIX-00B2C56488. But I can't figure out how to edit the KNOPPIX image accordingly.

I can find the hostname file that contains only the text KNOPPIX, and the hostname.sh that seems to call teh hostname file to gain the hostname. I just can't fingure out how to make it pull the MAC address and append it to the hostname KNOPPIX.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! And please remeber, I'm a beginner...and this is my first time playing with any Linux based OS.

Thank you,

Brandon