I have a total of four Debian machines, only one of which has a keyboard and monitor. The other three are put up in a closet and just there happily doing their jobs (for the most part). I don't recall any changes I had to make to the OS itself. At least one of the machines required me to go into the BIOS and tell it to not halt with an error if a keyboard wasn't detected.
HTH. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Shaul Karl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 7:13 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Booting a (network) machine that has no kbd and no monitor attached. I am setting up a machine that will be connected to the local network and will not have a monitor nor a keyboard attached to it. What changes, if any, should be made to the Debian software in order for such machine to be able to boot without complaining about the missing keyboard or monitor? In particular, what modifications are required for the initialization scripts and to the kernel? Are there any boot parameters that should be passed to the kernel about the lack of kbd/monitor? I am aware to the fact that the BIOS setting should probably be changed too. Yet I hope it would be the easier part. Is that so? Note that this machine has enough RAM. It also has its own hard drive. At least initially that machine will not run X at all. Later on it might be used to run the X clients. Short replies with pointers to documentation will be appreciated too. -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka(at-no-spam)bezeqint.net Please replace (at-no-spam) with an at - @ - character. (at-no-spam) is meant for unsolicitate mail senders only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]