[Nottingham] Re: Booting Headless

[James Gibbon]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:40:56 +0100
Teh Gooroo <tehgooroo at gmail.com> wrote:
 
> If you run gdm/kdm/xdm at boot and let it broadcast (a few easily
> found self explanatory tweaks in /etc/X11/*), you should just be able
> to run gdm or similar on your client and find it.
> or x -query 192.168.0.1 (or whatever the headless b0x ip is)

Agreed; I do this for my 2nd PC over a wireless connection and it
works like a charm.

One thought though - don't you at least need a keyboard (or keyboard
dongle) to be plugged in to boot a PC in the first place?

James

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