How To setup a no-keyboard, no-mouse, no-monitor box

[Rick Stevens]

kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:
> Hi List;
> 
> I want to create a server that does not require a keyboard, mouse or monitor 
> once installed. I'll do all the admin via ssh remotely.
> 
> Will Fedora boot and run without the kb, mouse & monitor ?

Fedora doesn't really care, however the BIOS of the machine may not
like it.  You have to go into the BIOS and turn off keyboard and/or
mouse errors.  Once that's done, Fedora is quite happy.  Note that if
you do boot into X on Fedora without a mouse and then plug one in,
X may not notice it.  However, usually a quick CTRL-ALT-F1 followed
by an ALT-F7 usually gets it back.  90% of all servers, however, boot
to run level 3 (text mode), not 5 (which is the GUI run level).
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