Subject: Re: headless multia
To: Eric.Melville (Exchange) <Eric.Melville@target.com>
From: Feico Dillema <feico@dillema.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/17/2000 18:36:09
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:20:56AM -0500, Eric.Melville (Exchange) wrote:
> I'm looking to run this here (post-heat-death) Multia as an NFS server for a
> LAN. There is really no reason to have a monitor and/or keyboard attached to
> it. Has anyone attempted to run a Multia w/o a keyboard? According to
> multiple (linux-related) sources, running w/o a keyboard will blow the
> motherboard (!) I see no mention of this in the NetBSD Multia FAQ. I am
> guessing that someone was running w/o a keyboard and happened to experiance
> heat-death at that time. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

I've run a multia without a keyboard as fileserver/www-server without
problems in the past for a long time.

Feico.