Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:21:44 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: Byoung-Kee Yi <kee@wam.umd.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] keyboardlee/monitorless booting Message-ID: <37F0B2D8.E8FBC29E@alcatel.fr> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909280558460.1319-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>
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Hello, I have such a setup at home : the main point is to find a motherboard with a BIOS which allows a keyboardless booting (mine is an ASUS M/B, which is OK) FreeBSD has no problem booting without a keyboard (I have an old VGA board in the box, from an old 386sx) TfH Byoung-Kee Yi wrote: > > Hi - > > I have a rather older model laptop (tosh tecra730) > with a 2GB disk shared evenly by windows and freebsd 3.2. > Apparently, I'm having a hard time due to lack of disk space. > I was considering to buy an ORB drive, but then realized that > freebsd now does not support pccard scsi now, does it? > So as a cheaper solution, I want to build a file server > on a cheap used pentium pc. But I don't want to have > any keyboard/monitor for it, mainly because I don't want to > mess up my desk space which is already full of stuff. > So here's my question. Can I build one without keyboard and monitor? > If so, what do I need to do? Is the comconsole package alone enough? > Or is there any other cheap solutions for my problem? > If my questions are stupid enough, please say so. > Thanks. > > -- Kee > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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