new to fai and having some problems...

[Mike Grommet]

3rd attempt (hoping I'm not spamming the list unknowningly), apparently my
first attempt to subcribe to the list failed.

I'm trying my first fai setup... running woody...  fai-setup runs for a bit,
but fai-setup dies (well sort of, see below) during the process...  the last
things I see on my screen are:

dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
dpkg: regarding .../util-linux_2.11n-4_i386.deb containing util-linux,
pre-depen
dency problem:
 util-linux pre-depends on slang1 (>> 1.3.0-0)
  slang1 is unpacked, but has never been configured.
dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-dependency problem !
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
Looking for keymap to install:
NONE
Looking for keymap to install:
NONE


<lots and lots of blank lines>

and the process seems to freeze at this point... no more activity is seen...

I believe I'm using FAI 2.4.1

I've looked in the archives, and found a few entries with people having the
same problem...  I tried those things, including grabbing and building /
installing
a new debootstrap

So, I'm kind of stuck...

The init:timeout opening/writing control channel looks a bit scary...

Anyone have any ideas?  I'm feeling rather stuck...