I just created a Debian image. Boots fine. However, it just says this on the prompt, which looks strange:

(none):/#

Is this normal?

Also, my Debian system is very "basic" now. What steps should I take to install applications etc?

Thanks

You are missing a hostname.

You can do

echo "whatever" > /etc/hostname
hostname -F /etc/hostname

(if you ever reboot, the hostname is automatically set for you)

Enjoy.

Bill Clinton

This works, until I reboot. How can I have it set at reboot?

it should work automatically at boot.

The command:

echo "hostname" > /etc/hostname

stores the hostname into the correct file. Which in turn is set at boot time by /etc/init.d/hostname

I get the odd feeling that your /etc/init.d/hostname script is not automatically be run at boot time. I have no idea how debian's brain-dead/non-conformant init scripts work, but the following should do it:

ln -s /etc/init.d/hostname.sh /etc/rcS.d/S40hostname.sh

that should make things work at boot time

Blii Clinton

Huh? They work just like any other SysV init system. One can argue that it's not the most intuitive system in the world, but it's hardly "non-comformant".

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