On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (although i'm doing this with a new FC3t2 box, i can't imagine it > will make a big difference from FC2). > > i want to configure my first headless server, and want to make sure > i do it properly so i don't hang it the first time and can never > recover. :-P > > installation: > FC3t2 > X + KDE (in case i want to occasionally slap a > keyboard, mouse and monitor on for convenience) > all the standard GUI and cmdline admin tools > > now, to make this headless, from googling a bit, i plan on doing the > following: > > 1) default run level of 3 As said yes, but not actually necessary -- X uses a lot of resources. > 2) modify BIOS to ignore missing keyboard (if that's relevant here) The machine will hang on a keyboard error on reboot -- you shoulg be able to the system not to stop on any error. > 3) add "apm=off" to GRUB boot line (what about acpi?) APM/ACPI will allow the hard drive to spin down (if set) (and the CPU to slow down also, if I remember correctly) -- good for inactive times like 4AM. > from my reading, that would seem to be sufficient. thoughts? > > rday -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
