Re: Headless installation.
From: smgstud (jhc_at_bu.edu)
Date: 09/16/03
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:24:50 -0400
what if you just get a switch for all k/b, mouse, and monitors, that way,
you can have 5 computers all connected, physically, with k/b&m and monitor.
a 5-computer peripheral switch shouldn't be too expensive. hope that helps.
-smgstud
"Bill Baird" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.16.19.15.29.502955@nospam.com...
> Ok, so this isn't exactly a Red Hat question, except that I am trying to
> bring up 7.3 on several machines.
>
> I was given some obsolete, but perfectly good, IBM 300GLs that I want to
> put on my home network to learn with. (An apache server, NIS server, DNS
> and so forth.) They are very small and 5 of them can stack in a small
> space.
>
> I don't have and don't want 5 sets of keyboards, monitors, and mice so I
> want to run them as headless servers, I believe the term is. This also
> has the advantage of making me do everything from in console mode, rather
> than "cheating" in xwindows. Good learning path, I hope.
>
> I can tell the machines that they have no mouse and there is a
> keyboardless option in the bios to make it boot without a keyboard. But,
> IBM in their wisdom, gives no way to boot without a monitor.
>
> Does anyone know if the video socket can be jumpered to fool it into
> thinking that a monitor is attached? Or some workaround.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill Baird
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