On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:49:13PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> > Thanks all. I do need to be careful about this as the machine is 400
> > miles away and the user is completely unable to be of any help if it
> > stops working meaning I have to drive or the box has to be shipped.
> > Either alternative is not good.
> 
> It's a bit late now, but installing a second distro, or a bare stage 3
> gentoo, as a dual boot so you can still access the machoine if it breaks.
> As an alternative, send the user a GRML CD and get them to boot that if
> things go wrong.
> 

There is no need to drive there or to send a cd. Even with no com_err
and no wget, you can still ssh into the machine, so scp should work too.