Debian lenny with etch chrooted. Fai-setup fails

Javi Legido javilegido at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 23:31:06 CET 2008


Hi.

My /etc/apt/source.list (lenny system) has this line:

deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln

Is necessary more changes?

Thanks in advice

On 24/01/2008, Michael Tautschnig <tautschn at model.in.tum.de> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have a lenny Debian running, and I debootrstraped a etch distro
> > inside, becasu (tell me if not) fai only runs under a 'stable' -
> > 'etch' debian distro.
> >
> No, FAI would run fine on lenny as well, but actually the current packages
> involve a hack to make it run on etch, because we need several packages from
> lenny anyway: Please check the contents of /etc/fai/apt/sources.list, change it
> some apropriate Debian/testing mirror, then you should be fine.
>
> > Well, I installed all the packages recommended, and finally ran 'fai.setup -v'
> >
> > The logs:
> >
> > http://pastebin.com/m1958cbba
> > http://pastebin.com/m179c607e
> >
> > I'm sure about fai-setup failed because an invalid netmask error, but
> > searching with grep, I can't find the file where writes the output
> > "Re-exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...exportfs: invalid
> > netmask" to solve it.
> >
>
> Judging from your logs it seems that you forgot to mount /proc into the chroot.
> But anyway I'd suggest editing /etc/fai/apt/sources.list to go for a complete
> lenny system.
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
>
>


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