Re: Argosy HD-363N

Most modern BIOSes are ok without display/mouse/kbd -- though you have
to configure them to not fuss about the kbd (of course, you need a kbd
to do this...). Problem is, of course, that most who are doing this have
an OLD machine with an OLD BIOS. Sigh.

Michael Wagner wrote:

> At 2/4/05 06:03 PM, Tim Hill wrote:
>
>> You can run w/o a kbd, mouse and display if the BIOS is ok with this.
>
>
> I think BIOS level stuff is the major concern.
>
> Once you get windows up, VCN or something can let you talk to the box,
> but
> if it stumbles before then, no one can talk to it.
>
> You might keep an extra KVM switch around for that purpose, I suppose ...
>
> Even the slug (NSLU2) has an extra serial port that people use when
> they're
> hacking the box ...
>
> Has anyone on this list configured a mini-itx box for AT storage? They
> sound promising and a lot of what people here are looking for ... small
> footprint, both physically and electrically, enough compute power to
> serve
> up files surely, not much heat, etc
>
> Michael
>
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