From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 6:21: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A14037B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 06:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs177.gsten.hh.se (chip@L22-212.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA21687; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:17:13 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001116135840.B93496@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:17:58 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Bjork To: j mckitrick Subject: RE: gateway/workstation without monitor? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Nov-00 j mckitrick wrote: > > I have an idea I am sure has been implemented, but I would just like > to > gather some details on how to do it. I would like to build a new BSD > box, > or else confiscate my dad's old P100. I dunno, maybe that's too slow. > Anyway, I don't want to buy a monitor right now, and if I can get away > without a video card for a while, that would be even better. I would > like > to set this up as a gateway/remote workstation I can plug my laptop > into. > > Anyway, here is the question: how hard is it to install BSD on a box > without > a monitor? What would I need? Just a null modem cable? Or would it > be > such a pain it would be better to use a monitor and video card and then > take > them out? I would like to just buy the MB, CPU, HD, ethernet (maybe > later) > and that't it, if possible. Is this doable ? > > jcm > -- I have an old P133 running FreeBSD 3.5 just like you want it. What I did was I took the monitor, keyboard and mouse from my wintendo box and plugged that in to install it. Once the FreeBSD box was up and forwarding packets I changed the bios in to not stopping on any errors and booted the box without anything except for the ethernet connections and powercord. A nullmodem cable would probably be a bad idea, Ethernetcards and crossovercables are pretty cheap so do that instead. I would also recommend taking a look at VNC in the portscollection, it's what I use to work on my BSD box and to be frank, it OWNS. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joel Bjork Date: 16-Nov-00 Time: 15:17:58 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message