Subject: Re: Can I run YDL headless?
From: Terry Allen (hmag@ozemail.com.au)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 22:34:37 MST
>All,
>
>Aside from running MOL, I don't really need a monitor, keyboard or mouse
>on this 8500 running YDL. I plan to use it as a compute server. But...
>will YDL actually boot on an 8500 without these ADB devices? I suspect,
>the answer is "no" because on Old World Macs you need to boot into Mac OS
>first and then boot Linux...
>
>Unless there's a way to directly boot into YDL on an Old World Mac without
>even touching Mac OS. Any chance this can be done?
>
>-- John
>
Hi John,
Someone may already have answered this, but you should be able to
let it boot, because BootX has a 'timer' which auto-selects Linux after 10
seconds in it's default installation, so you should have no trouble hitting
the power button & then letting it do it's biz.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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