next episode, continuing saga

Greg Groth ggroth at gregs-garage.com
Fri Sep 22 07:24:18 PDT 2006


Mario Lobo wrote:
> On Friday 22 September 2006 02:33, Bill Moran wrote:
>> jekillen <jekillen at prodigy.net> wrote:
>>> Hello again;
>>> With FreeBSD and in general, If the monitor is turned off
>>> is it safe to disconnect it from the machine while the machine
>>> is running?
>>> AMD64 socket 754 with separate PCI video card on ECS
>>> motherboard; no Xwindows installed. if it makes a difference.
>>>
>>> want to run the machine headless without shutting it down to
>>> switch the monitor to another machine.
>> Yes.  It's safe to do that with any OS I'm familiar with.
> 
> And the keyboard & mouse too.
> 

I've never had any issues, provided I set the option to NOT halt on 
keyboard errors at boot in the bios.

Best regards,
Greg Groth


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