Re: running Linux without display

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, John Hasler wrote:

> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 09:00:10
> From: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: running Linux without display
> Resent-Date: Sun,  3 Apr 2016 13:00:34 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Jude DaShiell writes:
> > It's possible to install talkingarchlinux http://talkingarch.tk/
> > without a screen and continue to use it without a screen once
> > installation is finished.  That version of linux is rather unique in
> > this respect.  Could it be generally a linux install bug in cases
> > where no display is attached a dummy package of some type is not
> > automatically installed to cover that case?
>
> Is it that you are trying to install Debian on a machine with no
> monitor, or that you are trying to install The X Window System on a
> machine with no monitor?
I figure to go at this first with a basic screen reader accessible debian 
install then install xfce or mate and get orca operational in that 
environment.  The machine taking the install has good memory and its video 
connector is one for which I have no cable now.  I normally hit s at the 
boot prompt and do a debian install that way first that way I'm assured of 
a good command line installation no matter what happens with the graphical 
user interface environment.

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