<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/12 Erez D <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erez0001@gmail.com">erez0001@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">hi<br><br>A friend of mine has a damaged laptop - no display (not even via the VGA connector). i want to use it as a server.<br>to do that i need access it first. but i have no display ...<br><br>I am looking for a live distro (CD) that will automatically (without needing keyboard / mouse / display ) connect to the network (via ethernet & dhcp) and run sshd.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>Is there really a 'no keyboard' requirement? Because I installed numerous headless Gentoo servers simply by booting from CD (gentoo-minimal - which does not load a GUI by default), waiting a couple of minutes for boot to end, and typing : passwd <cr> somepass <cr> somepass <cr> /etc/init.d/sshd start <cr> - and then continued from a networked computer after taking the IP from the DHCP leases list...<br>
<br>-- Shimi<br></div>