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Patrick Fleming EA wrote:
>
> > try VNC... that will basically replace the KVM. About 4 years ago I
> > had VNC running on my home LAN between Solaris, Linus, and WinNT.
>
> Unless the bios won't allow you to over ride the keyboard and mouse
> halt errors. Then you either have to plug in an extra keyboard and mouse,
> or boot on the KVM switch. I have gone back and forth between using VNC
> and KVM depending upon what I need. The Windows VNC server doesn't render
> all that well.

true. But in that case you have to have to either have a real KM
attached, have the KVM point to that machine while booting, or hack pig
tale so that it "looks like" there is a keyboard.

What I did in this situation in the past was to put the old machine (a
486 DX66) in a back corner with an ol cheep keyboard and mouse and no
monitor. Then I used VNC from my nicer/newer machine to access the
older one when needed. The issue for me was desk realestate no the fact
that the old machine underneath a back corner of the desk had a keyboard
sitting on top of it... Well, it worked for me.

EBo --