looking for a live distro for a damaged computer

[Erez D]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM, shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> wrote:

> 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
>
if it works, that is great. but if it doesn't, i can't know what the problem
is. so to minimize the options i preffer it does it automatically ...
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