Re: tlug: Setting up net at home

[Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com>]

Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> My intention is to set up my server machine at home, with the keyboard and
> monitor attached, and then when Linux is fully installed, bring in only the
> box to my office, hook it up to the net and go.

as long as you have a keyboard there for boot up, sounds good.


> I realise nothing is ever quite that simple, but do i at least have the
> principle right? I mean, even though at home there is nothing plugged into
> the net card, i can still type in IP addresses and whatnot without getting
> installation halting errors when it doesn't find the LAN? ANd then I can
> configure Apache and Sendmail, again without any actual Net present?

I'm pretty sure you shouldn't have a problem setting it up.  Of course
you'll want to check everything once you DO have it connected to the
LAN.
Since I only have a LAN when I get together with someone for network
games, there's always some tweaking to be done once I have the actual
connection, but I can get the basics out of the way with out even
knowing where I'm going to hook up.

-- 
Howard
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