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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Has anyone experienced a problem with the make-fai-nfsroot process like this?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">When I issue the command make-fai-nfsroot it appears to start building the nfsroot tree then dies. See below:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Creating FAI nfsroot can take a long time and will</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">need more than 160MB disk space in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot already exists. Removing /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Creating nfsroot for woody using debootstrap</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Calling debootstrap woody /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot <A HREF="http://fai01.openet.internal/debian">http://fai01.openet.internal/debian</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I: Retrieving <A HREF="http://fai01.openet.internal/debian/dists/woody/Release">http://fai01.openet.internal/debian/dists/woody/Release</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I: Validating /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_woody_Release</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I: Retrieving <A HREF="http://fai01.openet.internal/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz">http://fai01.openet.internal/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><snip - various packages listed></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I: Validating /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.50.17-9.6_i386.deb</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">/usr/sbin/debootstrap: ar: command not found</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.4.1_i386.deb...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">/usr/sbin/debootstrap: ar: command not found</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><snip - repeated sequence></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">chroot: cannot execute mount: No such file or directory</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">W: Failure trying to run: chroot /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot mount -t proc proc /proc</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">umount: /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/proc: not found</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">chroot: cannot execute apt-get: No such file or directory</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">chroot: cannot execute dpkg-divert: No such file or directory</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Other details:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">FAI version 2.5.2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Local mirror from which I have built several systems.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Minimal install of Debian stable with security updates (bf2.4 install) and just the required packages for fai as listed in the doco.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Andrew.</FONT>
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