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Black Mage
October 20th, 2007, 03:57 PM
Is there a way I can install ubuntu on a computer without a monitor is something like ssh?

I want to install a server edition on a laptop I have that is connected to an ethernet. But the laptops monitor is dead and I don't have any monitors in my house. Another laptop I have has 7.10 installed and on the same network. So could I install it from another laptop?

Ripfox
October 20th, 2007, 03:59 PM
Most laptops, even old ones have an external port to hook up a monitor...have you looked at this option?

Black Mage
October 20th, 2007, 04:11 PM
Yea, I know where and what the port is, I even have the connecter, but I just don't have a monitor. Everything in my house is a laptop.

x0as
October 20th, 2007, 04:13 PM
Cant you connect a laptop to some tv's?

edit: mines got a port to connect it to a tv.

Black Mage
October 20th, 2007, 04:17 PM
That would require some sort of VGA cable.

Ripfox
October 20th, 2007, 04:18 PM
No Svideo?

LanDan
October 20th, 2007, 04:23 PM
ever heard of FAI?
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAI_multi-distribution


i did this a while ago with debian woody and it worked pretty well

Black Mage
October 23rd, 2007, 05:27 PM
Ok I got an external monitor and got my laptop to send video out in Mac OS X. But when I put i the Linux CD and have the monitor hooked up, its blank because its still using the laptops monitor which is broken.

is there a way to get Ubuntu to read the other monitor? And I'm trying to install 7.04 server on a Mac PPC.

skralljt
February 11th, 2008, 01:58 AM
bump! I am also having this problem; external monitors don't work on ppc laptops by default, you have to boot osx it seems for them to work.

kool_kat_os
February 11th, 2008, 02:49 AM
watch out for the "Low Graphics Mode" message when booting up without a monitor

chirulais
February 11th, 2008, 03:13 AM
watch out for the "Low Graphics Mode" message when booting up without a monitor
i think theres only text in the server install

jure1873
October 18th, 2008, 09:39 AM
i may be a little late but:
is there a way to modify the server install cd so it would automatically start
openssh server with a default password and get an ip from the dhcp server?