I have built a number of these. Always used older H/W as raw CPU speed is a bit wasted on this application. At the moment my server is a Pentium 1 200. I put a PCI IDE controller and a PCI USB card into it so it can handle large drives and USB printers. (The USB support on old mobos can be suspect and the bios can't see disks bigger than GB).
The only other thing you need is for the machine to have a bios than can be set to halt on no errors. i.e. not to complain about missing keyboard etc. I had no trouble with the award bios with this - at least back as far as 1995 revision dates. A Dell system I set up for a customer insisted on having a keyboard no matter what, so we just left one connected out of sight. Anyway, I guess the main advice is to just check that the bios supports halt on no errors. Booting from CD is also handy of course. You will of course have a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected while installing, so make sure you do a final boot with just the monitor attached, so you can see any hardware detection issues. HTH Brian On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 01:37, Belgarius wrote: > Having long been fed up with Macroshaft's software, at least with regards to > server needs, I've opted to instead, use a Linux based server. While not > fond of M$ by any means, I still have to use it for my daily tasks, and so, > will by necessity, need to keep my primary workstation under that platform. > > I have been building a Linux box for some time, and have hit yet another > obstacle. What I need is a simple server/gateway box, one that will run the > servers, and provide Internet access for the remaining workstations. I > would greatly appreciate any advice, or pointers in directions where I might > obtain information about setting up a box without using keyboard, monitor, > or input devices. I've scoured what resources I have been able to find on > the topic, and have yet to hit one that details the hardware aspects of this > undertaking. > > With much appreciation, > > Belgarius > "I think, therefore, I am... I think..." > Registered Linux User #271587 http://counter.li.org > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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