I've found that most boxes newer than 486 handle no graphics card. A handy thing with boxes that have no monitor is to set up a terminal on one of the serial ports, especially with a firewall where you are likely to "cut off your hands", it is nice to be able to get in still.
You want to put a line in /etc/inittab (my distro has them already there, but commented out) #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 what you're looking for is ttyS0 or ttyS1 which means serial port 1 (TeleTYpe Serial 0?) then kill -HUP 1 (init is the first process). It's also handy to put ttyS0/1 in /etc/securetty which means that you can log in directly as root, rather than as a user then SUing. The reason they aren't in there by default is that modem logins are usually over serial ports. Cheers, Woody On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:35:00PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > > Rod, > As Terry pointed out, you don't need to run X to > run a firewall; for that you just need a firewall script, > the iptables package, and a kernel that supports iptables. > (unless you use ipchains or even ipfwadm; a bit old though) > Then link to it so it starts at boot, or perhaps whenever > the connection comes up. > > The first thing you will want to do though is to stop X > starting up (you did say, no graphics card ?). You'll need > to boot to single user mode or similar (type "linux single" > at the boot prompt; a redhat 7.3 person might be more helpful > here) and login as root, remove the links that are starting > gdm or kdm from /etc/rc/rc3.d (?) or better yet, just > uninstall gdm and/or kdm (rpm --uninstall gdm (?)). > > If you do want to run X, try installing a nice thin window > manager like WindowMaker (wmaker) (my favourite ;-). > It will run with very little RAM. > > patrick > > (I forgot to cc the list first time I sent this...) > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Rod Elliott - Hush Solutions wrote: > > > Hey Guys, > > Just hoping to get a bit of a helping hand with a server set up of Red > > Hat Linux 7.3. Ive set it up on an older Pentium I machine in the hope > > of bringing it back from the grave, and the installation appears to go > > fine, however upon booting, KDE or GNOME fails to run, citing memory > > problems (not enough) as being the cause. The machine also doesnt have a > > graphics card...and this may be the obvious cause of the problems. > > > > Can someone point me in the right direction on this. Does RH 7.3 require > > more RAM in order to run, a graphics card perhaps? I have the shell > > running fine, but it's X that appears to be struggling with the current > > hardware. What other options are available for aged and lesser quality > > hardware? All i really need is a box that will act a firewall between my > > win2k network and the internet. > > > > thanks in advance > > > > Rod. > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
