Well, I lost my connection to my remote machine, so I'm going to have
to go physically to the site.   A power cycle brought the machine up
to the extent that I get a telnet prompt, but than a "pam_start
failure" message.    So I presume it's in multi-user mode, network
configured etc. etc., just lacking the pam config stuff.

Given that I shall be in a hostile environment (i.e. without my
various LAN machines around me) and a distance from base I would
appreciate collective wisdom on how I approach my task.   Comments on
the following?

1. Boot with a pre-PAM (1.6, 2.0) CD-ROM and install the base.tgz set.
Reboot, fetch the pam stuff, then reboot under 3.0 and install the 3.0
base.tgz set.

2. Make a CD-ROM containing just the PAM stuff, boot from a 3.0
CD-ROM, then mount the CD with the PAM stuff on, copy it over and then
reboot from hard disk.

3. "Upgrade" entirely to a pre-PAM version, just not installing the
etc.tgz set, and go from there.

4. Any other suggestions.


Thanks for all the help so far.   My ISP says "no-one uses NetBSD so
we don't have any CDs".   I think I may want to find a new ISP.

-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>