keyboardless, headless suggestion

[Ben Stringer]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 23:39, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> I am interested in purchasing some cheap PC (e.g., wal-mart special) to use
> for a server.  Is there anything special I would need to do to boot up
> Fedora on such a device, with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse attached?  (I
> know the monitor and mouse should not be a problem, but in the past I've
> seen machines that wouldn't pass POST without a keyboard).

You should have no problems whatsoever running Fedora headless.

It is common for modern BIOS's to have a setting so they will boot
without a keyboard. The selection is usually worded along the lines of
"Fail on all except keyboard" or similar.

Things to note (off the top of my head) are:
 - Don't install gnome/kde/X
 - disable kudzu (you don't want to be prompted for input at boot time)
 - set your default runlevel to "3" in /etc/inittab

Cheers, Ben
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