Strange FAI problem: Packages found our not?

[Torsten Schlabach]

Hi!

I have used a different Debian mirror and the problem went away.

Regards,
Torsten


Torsten Schlabach schrieb:
> 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, ...
> 
> --- SNIP ---
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> --- SNIP ---
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> --- SNIP ---
> 
> 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"
> 
> --- SNIP ---
> 
> 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