RunTimeError wrote:
> From what I understand about computer systems is that the video card is
> required by the bios because the video card has its own bios, when you power
> the computer, the mainboard bios probes the video card for its bios
> information before it proceeds to do anything else. So in theory, if there
> is no video card present, the bios would halt and prevent the system from
> booting.
Configure the motherboard BIOS to not look for a video card at all.
The bigger issue is getting Linux to play. You'll need a kernel
configured to do console via a serial port. I'd be surprised if the
popular distributions provided built-in support for this.
Another (expensive) approach is to use an MDA emulator that has a serial
interface. In this instance you still use a serial console, but the
computer believes that it's talking to a monochrome display adaptor, so
you can use any Linux distribution that will install without VGA
graphics. Search Slashdot. Some Canadian company is doing them for a few
hundred dollars.
For home-lan use, a monitor on the server is almost certainly the best
approach.
- Raz
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