what do you plan to use your box for? because if you're planning to use it as a router/gateway, there are several floppy based distro's for the said purpose. if you would use it for some other purpose, then my best bet too would be LFS.
but if you could install slackware on it with a keyboard attached and a monitor on it initially, then you could configure a kernel that would allow you to boot it without keyboard and display support. you could also set it up to run sshd so that you could administer it remotely via ssh. this is after all, theoretical and i havent tried this myself so don't take my word for it. but AFAIK, it should be doable. :) On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:42, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: > > Hi, > > I am curious if somebody here have already installed linux on a > keyboardless machine. I have a P166 CPU at home that doesn't have a > serial keyboard and monitor that Im planning to install slackware to. My > idea is to to boot it with a floppy-based distro then connect thru ssh > and perform a network install. > > I have already asked this on a message board and somebody said I could > pull this off if I also use NFS but he said Ill have to find a > floppy-based linux distro that has sshd, or else I build one. Anybody > have an idea of a distro that might fill the requirements? I already > have googled and most hits that I browsed points to building one through > linux from scratch. > > This just crossed my mind and will have to wait until I get home. Any > other comments to refine/refute my idea would also be greatly > appreciated. :) > > ciao! > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -=[mikhail]=- aka Dean Michael C. Berris mobile +63 917 8901959 work +63 49 5680024 http://free.net.ph/Members/mikhailberis _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
