controlling headless pc - was: [Gllug] OT - general advice required on possible home setup

[Ian Norton]

i do have a few p100s that bitch alot with many beeps when there is no gfx
card, they do so for about 40 secs then boot debian :-)

bred

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:27:52PM +0200, John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:02, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I decided to start with a pentium machine being set up as an ftp server (to 
> > back up a database from the main machine). From looking on the net I 
> > understand that it is possible to use openssh to do even remote os 
> > installation on headless pc's. 
> 
> By the way Pavel, you have brought up an important point.
> Well - important to people building clusters :-)
> The PC architecture does not permit true 'headless' operation-
> machines will always need a graphics card of some sort in them to
> operate.
> 
> Clusters tend to use either the built in graphics on the motherboard,
> or a cheap graphics card. 
> 
> What I have said is not entirely true of course - I've heard that
> some Tyan motherboards now allow operation over the serial port,
> without needing graphics to boot.
> 
> 
> 
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