make-fai-nfsroot failure (at debootstrap stage)

[Brian Sutherland]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 05:49:39PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> | dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2 package `dpkg':
> |  error in Version string `': version string is empty

Your problem looks very similar to an old debian bug [1]. So
maybe you could try a different version of tar? Or modify
/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody as in the bug report.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193788


-- 
Brian Sutherland

"There has got to be more to life than just being really,
really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander