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I'm thinking about building a new server for my network. I'm just wondering if to save some money I can set up a thin server, with no video card, kind of similar to the Cobalt Microservers. I know enough about configuring Linux that I could just admininster the server through telnet remotely. Anyone ever tried this? How would I go about installing Linux on a server like this? Any hardware recommendations?
Sorry if this doesn't quite fit in to this forum, I didn't know where really to put it.
How much money are you going to save by not putting in a video card?
Just throw an old PCI card in there from a trashed machine.
But, to answer your question, you would probably need the video card to install the system, but after that, it could be removed and the system can be controlled remotely either via the network or the serial port.
I would just buy a low costing motherboard with onboard video. . . That way you don't have a card sticking out and you can make it as "thin" as you need it. It is always a good idea to have some sort of video card running so you can hook up a monitor when something goes wrong.
Will your m/b still boot without a video card? I wouldn't bet on it. No keyboard - fine. Just tell the BIOS to ignore it. But no video - not so sure. Otherwise be prepared to leave the card in, or use on-board video.
LTSP is an add-on package for Linux that allows you to connect lots of low-powered thin client terminals to a Linux server. Applications typically run on the server, and accept input and display their output on the thin client display.
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