I need to be able to ship a remastered Knoppix with our OpenVMS servers to be used from an attached PC (via serial cable) in case we need to do an emergency rescue of the OpenVMS server.

The idea is that the user booting the Knoppix CD has probably never seen Knoppix before, doesn't care to learn it, and will need to be guided through the process on the phone, so minimizing user dialogue and total number of steps to explain is important.

Ideally the system boots and configures network (as Knoppix does already,) assigns a random password (or prompts user to enter one) tells the user the ip#/password to let the "expert" at the other end of the phone know, and starts sshd so the "expert" can login with the supplied ip# & password.

The rest of the rescue is performed by the expert, who starts minicom (preconfigured with the appropriate settings) to service the OpenVMS server attached to the PC with a serial cable.

Knoppix is my first choice because it is based on Debian, with which I am already familiar, has a good reputation, is kept up-to-date, and remastering is a well-practiced art among the Knoppix user community.

Has anyone already remastered Knoppix in the way I describe? I took a look at the list of remasterings, and didn't see any that matched my needs.