[geeks] The best things in the world

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Sat Sep 13 08:57:32 CDT 2008


>From: Eric Railine <erailine at gmail.com>
>Date: 2008/09/12 Fri PM 04:50:59 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] The best things in the world

>On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Micah R Ledbetter
><vlack-lists at vlack.com> wrote:
>>
>> No, I was wondering if you could run it on a system without a graphics card
>> and keyboard attached. I did know about Windows Server Core, and it's a step
>> in the right direction, but I believe (could be wrong since I have only read
>> about it and never used it myself) that you still need a keyboard and
>> monitor.
>
>I'm not sure about whether or not a graphics card needs to be
>*installed* but you definitely don't need one connected, nor a
>keyboard or mouse.  For the initial installation, apart from the
>previously mentioned DRAC/iLO/etc. methods of getting a remote
>hardware console you could also

AFAIK a "regular" Windows Server 2008 will not allow inward-bound network connections after the install until you choose to allow them, though I'm sure there must be some way around it, but I bet it's not pretty...

Lionel 



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