VNC + Boot w/o keyboard, video & mouse
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Feb 15 18:43:56 UTC 2007
Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (14/02/07 17:16), NoOp wrote:
>> Folks, the question is not how I run VNC or access the machine afer it
>> is booted; it is "how can I boot the machine without an attached
>> keyboard & mouse".
>
> Well if you use aptitude to upgrade from the the command line; if you
> need to reboot:
>
> $ sudo reboot
>
You're still missing the point - some PCs won't boot if there's no keyboard
or monitor (I don't know of one that can't boot if it doesn't have a
mouse). It would have been more obvious if Noop hadn't even mentioned VNC.
It's BIOS dependent, so I don't think it's even something that Linux can
fix.
--
derek
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