From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 08:56:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12899 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hera.webcom.com (hera.webcom.com [209.1.28.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12894 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from eresh.webcom.com (eresh.webcom.com [209.1.28.49]) by hera.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA27255 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:56:00 -0700 Received: from [199.183.207.104] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 4874630; Fri Oct 23 08:54 PDT 1998 Message-Id: <3630D058.2C18@echidna.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:52:08 -0700 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: info@boatbooks.com Subject: Connecting mouse/keyboard to server booted without References: <3.0.5.32.19981022141543.008aa430@crash.cts.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First a meta-question - I understand cross-posting is deprecated, but is the following question better asked here or on freebsd-isp? I don't have a sense of how many subscribers to the latter list aren't on this list, and whether I might miss useful advice they would have. I have a FreeBSD box that will run as a web server, etc., in a colocation facility. It would normally be maintained remotely over the network connection, and not have keyboard, mouse or monitor connected. However, on occasion, we will be physically at the colo facility, and will want to hook up a keyboard, monitor and maybe mouse, without disrupting the server operation (e.g., with a reboot). The monitor is presumably not a problem to connect/disconnect. By experiment, connecting/disconnecting the keyboard to the live system seems to work OK, although I don't know if this is recommended practice. However booting without the PS/2 mouse leaves it inoperative, and X will not run. Not that that's essential, but it might be convenient. I tried running sysinstall after booting without mouse attached and then connecting the mouse, but I couldn't get the mouse to work. How do people normally deal with this situation? (I'd like to have the mouse work, but I'm more concerned about any issues with the keyboard, etc.). -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message