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I hope someone can help with this critical problem with OSX. Apple seem
Headless (non)operation on OSX
From: David Hooper
Date: Monday, April 29, 2002
Time: 5:11:21 am
unable or unwilling to help even thought the implications for them are huge.
I've just been setting up our OSX server (a G4-800) and it won't boot up
unless it has a monitor attached. This makes it useless to us as our servers
are co-located. After a week on the phone to Apple (UK) their position
currently is that *OSX and OSX server do not support headless operation*.
Apple have tested various versions of OSX themselves on several boxes and
have confirmed that the system software will not boot up without a monitor.
The boxes are not even pingable. We have tried gHeads and other monitor
adaptors - and even a trick with a paperclip but these do not solve the
problem (as they used to in the past).
This is obviously going to be a very serious issue for anybody migrating to
OSX with co-located servers - or indeed anyone who wants to use them as a
headless file server in an office.
Does anyone know of any solution to this problem, supported or unsupported
by Apple?
If you are interested and if we hear anything useful I will inform the list.
Feel free to contact me off list at david.hooper@artlogic.net.
This is clearly an issue which, if not resolved, is going to have a
significant impact on us but also all the companies which develop for OSX.
David
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