@jaredbusch said in Rescue computer with remote access:

I put fedora workstation on a usb, and live booted and installed l2tp dependencies with no issue.

So installing iced tea should be fine.

I've worked with lots of live sessions without persistence, and never had an issue installing additional software. Granted your limited to RAM as your total storage and system operation, and any additional software installed goes away on power off/reboot. It's odd that you're having trouble installing something unless it's requiring lots of large dependencies.

Your game plan is sound. Maybe they'll learn the joys of good backups?

You can also check dd_rescue