Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-22 Thread Eric Hattemer
Peter Besenbruch wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: >> Maybe I should go in the opposite order - I >> can log in over the serial connection when it is still booted runlevel >> 5 and has a monitor attached, can't I? > > You can, but you can also use a remote desktop connection. > Yeah, the thing to keep in

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Besenbruch
Dave Burns wrote: Maybe I should go in the opposite order - I can log in over the serial connection when it is still booted runlevel 5 and has a monitor attached, can't I? You can, but you can also use a remote desktop connection. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-22 Thread Dave Burns
On 10/21/07, Tom Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a little unclear now - what isn't working? Well, my brain. I'm a bit confused. Also, I was not actually working on it today, just gathering intel for the assault. > If your default runlevel is 3, > prefdm (and thus gdm) this will not be r

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Tom Gordon
I am a little unclear now - what isn't working? You can not worry about disabling gdm. Disabling the display manager has nothing to do with headless operation. If your default runlevel is 3, prefdm (and thus gdm) this will not be run. There is no need to comment the line out from inittab. It's

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Dave Burns
Mahalo everyone for the helpful suggestions. But I'm still not clear on what area of expertise I should be polishing here - init, X, bios? Headless servers are probably more standard than headly ones, is it really so simple that no one has bothered to write a specific howto? I must be missing somet

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Tom Gordon
Halt on all but keyboard works for me on most cheap mobos. Dells usually use a Phoenix bios, IIRC. Or, at least they used to - they might have their own now. The features inside could be very different from machine to machine. Support.dell.com and the Service Tag on yo

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread NetOpsCenter
Dave Burns wrote: Trying to RTFM, but can't seem to find the right FMTR. I've installed fedora on a dell. I want to unplug the monitor at least, maybe keyboard and mouse also, and have it still boot. I tried just unplugging the monitor, but it will not boot that way as currently configured. Goo

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Whoever Whatever
BIOS: Go to BIOS setup (F2 on dell?), change "Halt on all errors" to all but keyboard/mouse, it should boot. X: Turn off gdm, xdm or kdm service, most likely gdm for gnome, X no longer starts until you enable it again, just console login. If you want X without keyboard/mouse, there's an option to

[LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Dave Burns
Trying to RTFM, but can't seem to find the right FMTR. I've installed fedora on a dell. I want to unplug the monitor at least, maybe keyboard and mouse also, and have it still boot. I tried just unplugging the monitor, but it will not boot that way as currently configured. Googling indicates that