Re: Smart/Dumb box again... /Dumb 98

Hi Ian,

I don't have an answer to 98's 'enter' request, but I wanted to say that
if you disconnect the keyboard, you'll need to set the BIOS for 'no
keyboard', if it's available. Otherwise, you'll fail the keyboard
test. Most newer BIOS' support this.

What happens if you set the BIOS for no keyboard? Think 98 is smart
enough to skip it?


Alan KM6VV

Ian Wright wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Pitt" <bfp@...>
> >
> > but I think that would be getting ahead of ourselves , for the development
> > and tinkering stage its easy to just stack up a couple of old castoff PCs
> > networked and booting from the regular drives as PLCs-I/O expansion or
> > motion control boxes and downsize the cluster once the bugs get worked out
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to set up a 486 as a dumb server but have hit a snag -
> maybe someone could help me out. This box has windows 98 on it (it doesn't
> seem to like linux) and the proble is that, when it first fires up, it wants
> me to enter a password for 'netmeeting'. I don't have a password entered so
> that's not a problem, but it won't proceed with the boot up unless it
> receives an 'enter' from a keyboard. Obviously this rather defeats the idea
> of a dumb server as it means I have to have a keyboard and monitor hooked up
> to it so I know when to hit the 'enter' key and be able to do it. I'm sure
> there must be a work-around - how do other people deal with this? Thanks,
>
> Ian
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> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield UK
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