Re: Installing on a Headless PC?
thank you for the suggestions, but it seems the list agrees that i need to
dig up a head somewhere and at least start the install that way.
though it will only need base + ssh (which i think ssh is in base anyways)
and then i can remove the head again.
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 18:45, nate wrote:
> Ray said:
> > can debian be installed on a headless pc? and if so, anyone know where a
> > nice howto is?
>
> I have read that it's possible to install off the serial port, by passing
> the standard serial port options to the kernel(there are serial port HOWTOs
> which describe this). But you need a way to get that info to the kernel
> which means having a head on the system if only for a few minutes.
> Otherwise you may be able to make a custom bootdisk(not sure how) which
> uses the serial console by default.
>
> or if you meant can you install it, and run it headless, that of course is
> easy, and is a common configuration of linux/unix no special howto
> required, just unplug the mouse/keyboard/monitor.
>
> never tried installing a system w/o a video card at all though if that's
> what your attempting.
>
> nate
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