looking for a live distro for a damaged computer

[shimi]

2009/2/12 Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>

> hi
>
> A friend of mine has a damaged laptop - no display (not even via the VGA
> connector). i want to use it as a server.
> to do that i need access it first. but i have no display ...
>
> 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.
>

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...

-- Shimi
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