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At 04:29 PM 01/10/2003, Darryl Hoar wrote:
>Greetings,
>I installed 4.7 on a machine last weekend.  This machines main purpose is
>just
>to be a mysql database server.  Do you have to do anything special to run it
>without a monitor (space considerations) ?

Its handy to enable serial console access.  Add -Dh to /boot.config

and in /etc/ttys

ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100 on secure


         ---Mike