diff --git a/setup/so-whiptail b/setup/so-whiptail
index 3f8628a30..13bfa82b4 100755
--- a/setup/so-whiptail
+++ b/setup/so-whiptail
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ whiptail_invalid_hostname() {
 
 	local error_message
 	read -r -d '' error_message <<- EOM
-	Please choose a valid hostname. It cannot be localhost; and must contain only the ASCII letters 'A-Z' and 'a-z' (case-sensitive), the digits '0' through '9', and hyphen ('-')
+	Please choose a valid hostname. It cannot be localhost. It must contain only the ASCII letters 'A-Z' and 'a-z' (case-sensitive), the digits '0' through '9', and hyphen ('-').
 	EOM
 
 	if [[ $is_manager_hostname = 0 ]]; then