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 -- .O. Ben Stringer ..O ben@xxxxxxxxxxx OOO linux|java|majitek|gnu
