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Subject: Re: Is it possible?
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 11:24:15 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Navinchandra wrote:

> Can we install Linux on a machine without keyboard, Mouse and a Monitor. 

Yes, using kickstart.
The other option is to install everything on a different machine and then
swap disks, or to just plug in a keyboard and monitor during installation
and moving them somewhere else once everything is running.

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Subject: Re: Is it possible?
From: Bret Hughes <bhughes@elevating.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 10:16:31 -0600


Depending on the motherboard you might need to tell the bios not to stop on
keyboard errors.  Otherwise you might get the ol' kebard error press F1 to
continue.  We run Linux on several machines with no keyboard or mouse.  All AT
machines BTW. Not sure about PS2 input devices.

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Subject: Re: Is it possible?
From: Jason Hirsch <hirsch@expert.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 11:19:30 -0500 (EST)


Morning-

I actually am doing what you say on 2 machines right now.  The gateway is
a 486 that I have no need for a monitor or a keyboard or a mouse, and the
other system got hozed when a 3.6 gid WD HD failed... so I put linux on it
to run seti@home.

THere are 3 places in the bios you need to look to enable 'dumb' booting-

one is boot sequence- disable your floppy drive.
two is floppy drive options - disable them (if you don't have one, like
me)
three is 'keyboardless operation' - enable that one.

then just disconnect everything when it works and you are set!

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