I booted off a live cd and installed to hard drive using the instructions
here . The install went through perfect and I'm able to boot via hard disc now. I also added the boot option to menu.lst to change the hostname from the default 'box'
kernel /boot/bzImage quiet host=tinycorepc
However, I cannot ping from an external system using the hostname but I can ping using the ip address
If I ping on the tinycore system itself it gives me the output below
ping tinycorepc
PING tinycorepc (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.074ms
The resolved ip is different to the one assigned by the dhcp server (192.168.1.32 and I ping using this ip). What do I change so I can ping via hostname, I'm sure it must be something simple, but I'm not so proficient in linux