Headless Mac mini - Mac mini setup without screen

By Niklas Bivald on October 9, 2008 7:10 PM | | Comments (0)
Recently we bought a mac mini for e-mail server at work. This works great but since I have no external screens I will have problems setting up the headless mini.

I will give http://jamieorc.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/setting-up-a-headless-mac-mini-without-a-monitor/ a shot, basically:


  1. connect a keyboard to the Mini
  2. start the Mini in FireWire Disk Mode
  3. connect the MacBook Pro to the Mini with FireWire cable
  4. restart the MBP using the Mini as the boot disk
  5. setup the Mini with network access and remote management (Sharing)
  6. reboot the MBP with its own disk
  7. disconnect the Mini and reboot
From the above mentioned source.

(PS: On leopard server? Try http://www.bos89.nl/1218)

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