You can definitely boot without a monitor. As for the keyboard, you using have to change a setting in your BIOS to ignore keyboard errors. Linux won't care that it's missing. Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 11:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Linux Serverbox Setup > > > For those of you that turned older machines into dedicated > servers... > Since you can do most things remotely, do you still keep a monitor > attached to it? Can it reboot without the monitor connected? > > Seve >