On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:46:30 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote:

> > 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.

On this occasion, yes. But as a general CYA policy, as long as the user
is capable of making a selection from a boot menu, a fallback distro
would be useful in this situation.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If it isn't broken, I can fix it.