Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 04:41:15 -0400 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make a headless box Message-ID: <7EB5E2F9-7ABB-11D6-B30D-0003931BED80@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <3D015593.9860.1ED8AAD@localhost>
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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
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