I am installing many machines with RIS with no problems. Each machine comes up with a random hostname that is generated based on the username that I used to install with. (i.e. if my username is bill, the machines will be named bill1, bill2, bill3, etc.) Now each machine will need to be renamed to what the final hostame will be (cumbersome).

Is there an easier way to do this? For example each machine that is imaged using the db image will receive a hostname like db1-test, db2-test, etc, and machines imaged with the web image will be named web1-test, web2-test, etc., so when the machine is done installing the final hostname is correct. Worst case scenario would be to script the changing of the hostname somehow in GuiRunOnce, but I havent found a way to change the hostname on the command line either (OS is win 2003 btw).

This is known as "prestaging". Take a peek here.

Nice... It is working great. Thanks for the info!