From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 5:30:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338F815155 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id NAA02650; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:25:31 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id OAA09226; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:30:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA19131; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:11:12 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id OAA25347; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:24:09 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37F0B2D8.E8FBC29E@alcatel.fr> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:21:44 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Byoung-Kee Yi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] keyboardlee/monitorless booting References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have such a setup at home : the main point is to find a motherboard with a BIOS which allows a keyboardless booting (mine is an ASUS M/B, which is OK) FreeBSD has no problem booting without a keyboard (I have an old VGA board in the box, from an old 386sx) TfH Byoung-Kee Yi wrote: > > Hi - > > I have a rather older model laptop (tosh tecra730) > with a 2GB disk shared evenly by windows and freebsd 3.2. > Apparently, I'm having a hard time due to lack of disk space. > I was considering to buy an ORB drive, but then realized that > freebsd now does not support pccard scsi now, does it? > So as a cheaper solution, I want to build a file server > on a cheap used pentium pc. But I don't want to have > any keyboard/monitor for it, mainly because I don't want to > mess up my desk space which is already full of stuff. > So here's my question. Can I build one without keyboard and monitor? > If so, what do I need to do? Is the comconsole package alone enough? > Or is there any other cheap solutions for my problem? > If my questions are stupid enough, please say so. > Thanks. > > -- Kee > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message