Could you make some kind of rescue disk or something available as a boot profile, in the event that someone accidently deletes a needed file or something like that? Something simple like Tom's Root and Boot disk, or a small image of a slackware install cd......

You can do that on your own I think.

Just reserve a few hundred meg maybe for a tiny little debian bootable.

Had a poke around the distribution wizzard?

-Ashen

I agree with Jax that such a minimal boot image for system recovery would be useful, but I think that it should be supplied by Linode.com. Otherwise we're all wasting precious disk space on duplicating a minimal rescue partition. And there are those of us who are already using up all of our disk space so it's not an option to add a rescue partition at this time.

I would recommend that Linode.com implement a simple system whereby any Linode.com could be booted up to a common read-only rescue partition, and can then mount their own Linode partitions and fix any problems.