[K12OSN] server without graphics card

[Brian Chase]

Leave the graphics card in, and put a old small display on it for 
emergency console access is my advice.

I'd get it into another locked room where nobody's tempted to sit down 
at it or bump the power switch.

Krsnendu wrote:

> I have an Athlon 2500xp inside a regular tower case on MSI KT6 Delta 
> motherboard. Can I use this without a graphics card?
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> I would rather use it only as a server not as a terminal as well. I 
> had the experience the other day that I was using the server machine 
> directly as a terminal and openoffice froze the machine and I had to 
> reboot. Naturally all the terminals went down. I am sure if I ran the 
> program from another terminal machine I could have restarted that 
> machine and the other machines connected to the server would have kept 
> running.
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> If I am not using the machine as a terminal do I need a graphics card. 
> Are there any tricks for getting it to start without it.
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> I have been using an old  pci graphics until now just to get it going.
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