[plug] Headless operation

stephen humble steve at newton.dialix.com.au
Sun Jun 25 15:07:55 WST 2000


Phillip Steege wrote:
> 
> Can Linux be setup to run in "headless" (no monitor, keyboard, mouse)
> operation?  I remember seeing SUN Sparc workstations setup that way.

probably can - 
you can compile a linux kernel 
with no vga or text mode display support. ( normally not reccommended )
The keyboard and mouse should not cause any problems

Can settup a serial port to allow 
a vt102 to be used for diagniostics.

Or use the network hardware to access everything.



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