On 10/21/07, Tom Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a little unclear now - what isn't working?
Well, my brain. I'm a bit confused. Also, I was not actually working
on it today, just gathering intel for the assault.
If your default runlevel is 3,
prefdm (and thus gdm) this will not be run.
Dave Burns wrote:
Maybe I should go in the opposite order - I
can log in over the serial connection when it is still booted runlevel
5 and has a monitor attached, can't I?
You can, but you can also use a remote desktop connection.
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Peter Besenbruch wrote:
Dave Burns wrote:
Maybe I should go in the opposite order - I
can log in over the serial connection when it is still booted runlevel
5 and has a monitor attached, can't I?
You can, but you can also use a remote desktop connection.
Yeah, the thing to keep in mind is
BIOS:
Go to BIOS setup (F2 on dell?), change Halt on all errors to all but
keyboard/mouse, it should boot.
X:
Turn off gdm, xdm or kdm service, most likely gdm for gnome, X no
longer starts until you enable it again, just console login. If you
want X without keyboard/mouse, there's an option to
Dave Burns wrote:
Trying to RTFM, but can't seem to find the right FMTR.
I've installed fedora on a dell. I want to unplug the monitor at
least, maybe keyboard and mouse also, and have it still boot. I tried
just unplugging the monitor, but it will not boot that way as
currently configured.
Halt on all but keyboard works for me on most cheap mobos.
Dells usually use a Phoenix bios, IIRC. Or, at least they used to - they
might have their own now. The features inside could be very different from
machine to machine. Support.dell.com http://support.dell.com/and the
Service Tag on
Mahalo everyone for the helpful suggestions. But I'm still not clear
on what area of expertise I should be polishing here - init, X, bios?
Headless servers are probably more standard than headly ones, is it
really so simple that no one has bothered to write a specific howto? I
must be missing
I am a little unclear now - what isn't working?
You can not worry about disabling gdm. Disabling the display manager has
nothing to do with headless operation. If your default runlevel is 3,
prefdm (and thus gdm) this will not be run. There is no need to comment the
line out from inittab.
