On Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:46:05 +0100 "Jonathan Dowland" <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon Jun 2, 2025 at 6:29 AM BST, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: > > Dear users and developers, > > I would like to know, if is it possible to use Debian Mate on > > mini PC with 8 GB of RAM if I will not use external monitor > > connected to provided HDMI output connector. > > It depends on the specific machine, unfortunately. > > I've had a mini-PC that refused to boot without an attached display. > It had a VGA port and it was possible to build a dummy VGA attachment > that fooled the machine into thinking a display was attached. I don't > know how feasible building something like that is for HDMI. > > I hope that this kind of misfeature is relatively rare. > Certainly the Raspberry Pi OS (closely based on Debian, formerly called Raspbian) allows headless use. On first boot, there is a configuration screen displayed, but this is only a convenient interface to the configuration files, which are plain text files on the SD card of the OS. SSH can be pre-enabled before first boot. -- Joe
