Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:45:14 -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
[...]
>> Even if you HAD a keyboard that fits you would SURELY kill your machine by
hot-
>> plugging it in (smash the keyboard-controller's fuse, if it has one, or even
>> blow the controller itself.)
>No...I do this all the time whenever I need to boot my firewall or my server,
>both of which run without keyboards most of the time.
Then you have probably just been lucky all the time. :-)
Seriously, I've seen LOTS of fuses blow by just hot-plugging the keyboard. I
don't know whether modern boards are more robust with this respect, but I doubt
it.
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