From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 8 1:40:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7AA37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [68.64.98.90] (helo=lime.objectwerks.com) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #9) id 17GbmD-000C8Y-00; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 04:40:49 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 04:41:15 -0400 Subject: Re: Make a headless box Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: "Corey Snow" From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC In-Reply-To: <3D015593.9860.1ED8AAD@localhost> Message-Id: <7EB5E2F9-7ABB-11D6-B30D-0003931BED80@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, June 8, 2002, at 03:53 , Corey Snow wrote: > I've got a 486 DX2/66 that I've managed to get bridging with ipfw > between my DSL and LAN. Since I have a bunch of systems and not much > room on the KVM switch, and this is effectively an appliance once > it's tuned properly, I'd like to make it headless- remove the video > and keyboard entirely, making it accessible via ssh or nullmodem only. > > It currently has an old VESA VGA card in it. Ideally, I'd like to > make the configuration changes, shut down the system, take out the > card, and start it back up again in headless mode. > > Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! > > Most computer BIOSes, especially that old, won't allow you to start up without a video card. That doesn't mean you have to have a monitor attached... You can run headless by not attaching the monitor to it. Make sure you tell the BIOS to ignore keyboard errors if you can -- many BIOSes won't go past a keyboard error unoless you have a setting set to ignore keyboard errors. Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message