Tiny IP-KVM devices exist
I recently bought a server on Ebay and wanted to install Linux on it, but didn’t have a monitor! I discovered that today there are tiny cheap devices that you can plug into the HDMI/USB ports that let me:
- go to http://192.168.1.xxx to see the monitor output (and interact with it as if I had a keyboard plugged into the server)
- store a bunch of ISOs on the device and pick which one I want to mount as a USB drive
I got this NanoKVM device on Aliexpress for $80 and it seems to do what it advertises!
The CPU is quite slow so scping ISOs to it seems limited by the CPU speed, I
can only scp at 5MB/s.