Strange FAI problem: Packages found our not?

[Michael Tautschnig]

> 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.
> 
> 

[...]

Is there some (misconfigured/broken) proxy in between? AFAIK apt-get will first
try to download Packages.bz2, then Packages.gz and Packages as the last resort
only. You could also try some packet sniffer to debug this one.

Best,
Michael

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