Re: Installing OS on rackmount server

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Is that the port which looks like an ethernet jack?

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Brannon <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 04:16:26 -0700
Subject: Re: Installing OS on rackmount server

> Michal Zegan <webczat_200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > serial console >>> any screenreader for anything text mode IMO. do you
> > have a serial console and any way to make it usable?
> 
> Any rackmount server worth owning is going to have IPMI with SOL (serial over
> LAN).  When I set up our rackmount server late last year, we put a DHCP
> server and ipmitool on a Raspberry Pi and plugged that puppy into the
> IPMI network interface on the server.  The Pi handed out an IP address
> for the server's IPMI over DHCP, and we logged into the Pi through ssh
> to run ipmitool to configure the server.  In this setup, the Pi was
> connected to our home network through wifi.
> 
> You may need to enable serial over LAN in the BIOS.  We got lucky and it
> was pre-configured for us.
> 
> Serial over LAN also gives you a serial console for the BIOS, once it is
> enabled.  You get full boot-up to shutdown access.
> 
> So hopefully your server has IPMI and SOL.
> 
> -- Chris
> 
> 





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