Subject: Re: how to make a machine into a headless box
From: James Bagley Jr. (james@thelostnet.net)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 17:03:03 AKST
you could get a PCWeasel...
They are a serial card that pretends to be a video card. Basically, you
can plug a serial terminal into it and get into BIOS. It looks like a
video card to the os, but in the real world you can plug anything from a
null serial cable, to a modem, to a piece of wire into it and it'll work.
I have one of these in a server and it works pretty well.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Greg Jetter wrote:
>
> I have a linux server I want to make into a headless box , that is no
> monitor/keyboard , is there a howto somewhere ? can any point me into the
> right direction .
>
> I tried booting without the keyboard and get an error , the machine just
> stops and request that I press f1 to continue , kind of hard to do without a
> keyboard.
>
> Could I safely remove the keyboard and monitor once it was booted ?
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> Greg
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-- Don't panic.
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