make-fai-nfsroot problem, "WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the installation list"

[John Heim]

I am having a problem with make-fai-nfsroot. It is not installing several 
programs to the nfsroot. Among them is grub which is kind of essential. :-)

I tweaked the /etc/fai/apt/sources.list file. But I know it points to a 
valid etch mirror.

Here is what make-fai-nfsroot says:

# make-fai-nfsroot -v
[...]
Setting up fai-client (3.1.8) ...
Setting up fai-nfsroot (3.1.8) ...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the installation list: 
bootpc console
-common console-tools cvs dhcp3-client dialog discover dnsutils dosfstools 
dump expect
 fai-nfsroot grub hdparm hwinfo iproute jove less lftp lilo lshw lvm2 mdadm 
mdetect mo
dule-init-tools ntpdate parted pciutils portmap psmisc rdate reiserfsprogs 
rsh-client
rsync smartmontools ssh subversion sysutils udev usbutils xfsdump xfsprogs
Adding additional packages to /usr/local/share/fai/nfsroot:

Couldn't stat source package list http://debian.mirrors.tds.net etch/main 
Packages (/u
sr/local/share/fai/nfsroot/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.mirrors.tds.net_debian_dists_etch_
main_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org 
etch/updates/main Package
s (/usr/local


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