Remote Debian install?

[Bill McGonigle]

Make sure you know all the features your hosting service offers.

For instance, I recently found out my ISP (1&1) has a spot on the 
control panel where you can switch your machine from booting from disk 
to booting to a vanilla Debian image (CD?  PXE?  Terminal Servers? - 
their boot-fu is stronger than mine) complete with your account 
password as root.

It got me out of a kernel upgrade where the new kernel had the network 
module not working under insmod (had to statically build it in).  
There's a bad feeling very deep inside when you reboot that server in 
New York and the pings never start coming back...

In your case, doing a debian upgrade would be a snap if you had this.

-Bill
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