From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 11:25:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27376 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.Bridge.COM (gatekeeper.bridge.com [167.76.159.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA27367 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhughes@logroad.bridge.com) Received: (from mailproxy@localhost) by gatekeeper.Bridge.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA12701; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:25:17 -0500 Received: from dns1srv.bridge.com(167.76.56.13) by gatekeeper.Bridge.COM via proxy (cih) id xma012690; Fri, 23 Oct 98 13:25:08 -0500 Received: from logroad.bridge.com (logroad.bridge.com [167.76.15.21]) by dns1srv.bridge.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09311; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:25:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: by logroad.bridge.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA29916; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:25:05 -0500 From: mhughes@logroad.bridge.com (Michael Hughes) Message-Id: <199810231825.NAA29916@logroad.bridge.com> Subject: Re: Connecting mouse/keyboard to server booted without To: graeme@echidna.com (Graeme Tait) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:25:05 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, info@boatbooks.com In-Reply-To: <3630D058.2C18@echidna.com> from "Graeme Tait" at Oct 23, 98 11:52:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graeme Tait said in email to me: > > First a meta-question - I understand cross-posting is deprecated, but is > the following question better asked here or on freebsd-isp? I don't have > a sense of how many subscribers to the latter list aren't on this list, > and whether I might miss useful advice they would have. > > > I have a FreeBSD box that will run as a web server, etc., in a colocation > facility. It would normally be maintained remotely over the network > connection, and not have keyboard, mouse or monitor connected. > > However, on occasion, we will be physically at the colo facility, and > will want to hook up a keyboard, monitor and maybe mouse, without > disrupting the server operation (e.g., with a reboot). > > The monitor is presumably not a problem to connect/disconnect. > > By experiment, connecting/disconnecting the keyboard to the live system > seems to work OK, although I don't know if this is recommended practice. > > However booting without the PS/2 mouse leaves it inoperative, and X will > not run. Not that that's essential, but it might be convenient. I tried > running sysinstall after booting without mouse attached and then > connecting the mouse, but I couldn't get the mouse to work. One way around this is to use a serial mouse. > How do people normally deal with this situation? (I'd like to have the > mouse work, but I'm more concerned about any issues with the keyboard, > etc.). > > > -- > Graeme Tait - Echidna > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ _ _ _ _ , Loghome living is the ' ) ) ) / // ' ) / / best ! / / / o _. /_ __. _ // /--/ . . _, /_ _ _ / ' (_<_(__/ /_(_/|_