From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 08:01:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD7816A4C2 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 08:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E1843FBF for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 08:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.124]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20031006150105.HWTF2637.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@llama.fishballoon.org> for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:01:05 +0100 Received: from scott by llama.fishballoon.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 1A6WqP-00039n-P7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:00:17 +0100 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:00:17 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031006150017.GE8641@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <20031006033138.14059.qmail@web21307.mail.yahoo.com> <20031006131639.GB3467@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031006131639.GB3467@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 i386 Sender: Scott Mitchell Subject: Re: Booting without keyboard. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:01:07 -0000 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:16:39PM +0300, Mike Jackson wrote: > > Hi, > You could try a USB keyboard. I'm not sure if USB Hotplugging is > working in FBSD or not, but it *should* work theoretically. > > I don't know of any systems that allow PS/2 hotplugging. I've read (although never actually seen myself - so take this with as large a grain of salt as you like) that hotplugging PS/2 peripherals can damage the port you're plugging them into, so I'd be wary about doing this. Depends where the server is located wrt. other machines, but a KVM switch might be useful in this situation. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon