> That's the ticket.   I wonder if anyone has tried building a "rescue USB
> thumb drive" since the 1GB devices are so cheap these days.  That would
> be great for this kind of situation.

FWIW, I'm booting my firewall from an usb pen drive with devil-linux installed, so a rescue environment should be doable. But then again, devil-linux works like a rescue environment for CentOS anyway. :)

Regards,
Harald