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I am new in servers. I have an old PC. I want to install Ubuntu Server on that PC and keep it on my home network. The problem is that I can't keep the monitor and the keyboard. So the questions are:

  • How can I have the server without monitor/keyboard and access it with my laptop through my home network?

  • How can I boot the machine without monitor/keyboard anytime I want? (I think that without monitor/keyboard the BIOS would throw errors.)

Can anyone explain the process to me? I have searched the internet but got confused.

Bill the Lizard
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tioschi
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Usually administrators use SSH to access servers remotely. Install on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install ssh

It will install the OpenSSH daemon. Then use any SSH client (just ssh on Linux/Mac, PuTTY on Windows) to connect to your remote machine over the network. It will also provide SFTP/SCP for file transfers. Just make sure your network is configured properly before making it headless.

For booting the machine headless, it is probably only required to configure your BIOS to continue booting without a keyboard. It is common for consumer hardware mainboards to stop booting without a keyboard as a default setting, but can be changed usually.

gertvdijk
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There are many ways to get remotelly unreachable on a head-less station. If you look at the perspective that without properly booting a system a device can become severelly bricked, even if it would be a silly press enter on the boot time.

You can grab this two fixes if you havent seen it before, but there may be another several hacks to your distro become complete 100% bootable. Looking for them.

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