fai installation

[Rajesh pant]

Hello all,
at last, i, able to connect to client using FAI.
i used fai_action= sysinfo and it worked.
however, when i tried to do it with fai_action=install. The process started
but it couldn't fetch packages from debian repository due to no connection
with Internet.
i have no internet access to client or server. i have used a small cable to
connect the two.
the installation took 556 sec. to install and all i can see is a black
screen with the following message and then a prompt

 GNU GRUB version 0.97 (639k lower / 1039168k upper memory)

[ minimal BASH-like line editing is supported....etc........

grub>

Is it necessary to have an Internet connection to install a client?

Thank you for your time and suggestions.
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