[Nottingham] Re: Booting Headless

[Robert Hart]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:48 +0100, James Gibbon wrote:

> 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?

There used to be a time when you'd get a message that said:
Keyboard Error, Press F1 to resume

but I think most PCs now either do the right thing by default, or can at
least be configured to do the right in the BIOS. Either way you only
need to boot it once right?

Rob

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Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham


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