Strange FAI problem: Packages found our not?

[Torsten Schlabach]

Hi all!

I am trying to do an FAI installation. My problem is that no packages
are installed onto the target system (not even a kernel), which makes it
hard to use to say the least.

Looking at my fai.log, ...

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Err http://ftp.debian.org lenny/main Packages
  404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages
  404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages
  404 Not Found
Fetched 232kB in 0s (235kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages  404
Not Found

W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.


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Interesting enough,

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages

indeed does not exist; just

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz does.

A bit later, this seems to result in

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Reading task descriptions...
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched
"linux-image-486"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "memtest86"
No candidate version found for grub
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "fai-client"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "cfengine2"

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So the system is unable to fetch the kernel and also a couple of
important other packages.

Any ideas what setting is responsible for making apt-get look for the
Packages file instead of Packages.gz on the mirror?

Regards,
Torsten