On Friday 10 Jan 2003 9:54 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 04:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is it possible to have mandrake running on a computer with no video card > > or monitor on it at all? And then admin the box via ssh,vnc or something > > else? > > Essentiall you're going to need at least SOME kind of video card in the > box - to install it in the first place - even if it's a cheapo low end > video card. BUT, the good news is that yes, it can be setup, then after > you've gotten it where you like it - you can either use VNC or remote > Xsession to use/administer the machine - just like what's done in the > corporate world!
I run linux 6 computers here and 2 of them refuse to reboot after a power outage due to faults on their harddrives generating a "S.M.A.R.T" error warning of impending doom and catastrophy soon to befall my system as the harddrive is about to die! :) OK, so its been spewing out these messages for the past year and they still run ok and don't contain any vital data anyway, but my point is this; I have to reconnect a monitor, keyboard and mouse at reboot time as the process requires the F1 key to be pressed to resume the booting process. Otherwise they will just sit there waiting for the key to be pressed in silence and obscurity and you cannot access these machines as technically they are not up and running any OS yet. Its a catch-22 situation as far as remote admin goes and the only solution is to either replace the drives or keep taking the back off the computer stacks and connecting the perepherals back on at boot time to each offending machine. I have tried so many times to get VNC running KDE here without any results so far and have had to resort to the above methods or use webmin for any admin work on the other machines from my main connected/gateway linux box. regards magnet
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