Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:33:19PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:10:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> ...
> > headless would be a monitor, keyboard and mouse, with no cpu
> > box.
>
> Not quit. Headless would be without monitor, cpu and memory.
> Lack of cpu and memory could be called brainless, but lack of cpu
> alone lacks any resemblance with known life forms.
Life forms use a different architecture; several
not-entirely-separate, heavily networked processing units (bit like a
3D transputer array); in these processing units, processing and memory
cannot meaningfully be separated.
>
> To be serious again, what's really lacking to get headless machines
> to fully work is lack of support in most (all?) BIOS'ses to use a
> serial line instead of directly attached monitor and keyboard.
> If your motherboard is supported the LinuxBIOS might solve that one.
You could make an adapter with a few resistors and diodes to drive the
keyboard input of a PC from the parallel or serial port of another
machine. You'd be typing blind though. You'd have to give an exact
script to get the Debian installer to the point where the network
interface is running. OK if nothing goes wrong.
Trouble is some BIOSes just sit and beep at you if there's no video
card.
Pigeon
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