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.
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