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Anyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lol (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you do a headless install like Ubuntu Server Preseed?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cobbler/Preseed

Or do you install linux on an SSD from a different machine, then plug it into MDF mounted laptop mobo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would guess by plugging external peripherals to the motherboard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about the LCD/monitor. Maybe @penguin_knight keeps the LCD and mounts it to the board as well. If not, it's headless. Mouse and keyboard are not the issue. I always set up raspberry pi headless because the OS allows it. All you have to do is add an ssh file to the /boot dir and wpa_supplicant.conf file in root dir. Other distros typically don't, they need a monitor to be installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know, that's why I wrote external peripherals and not external inputs. I don't want to sound cocky or be an asshole (we all know how easy it is by just reading a message someone you don't know wrote), but after 24 years of being in system administration/engineering/architecture I may have sufficient grasp of what I am talking about. 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Got it.