Create FAI NFSroot for i386 arch on amd64 host?

[Toni Mueller]

Hi,

On Thu, 02.07.2009 at 21:11:47 +0200, Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> wrote:
> Adding --arch i386 to FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS (of make-fai-nfsroot.conf) should
> suffice (at least this is what we do over here). 

this is also mentioned this way in the wiki:

http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAI_Cross-architecture


Unfortunately, it does not work for me:

# fai-setup -C /etc/fai-i386 -v  -r
Account $LOGUSER=fai already exists.
Make sure that all install clients can
log into this account without a password.
/tftpboot/fai/data/logs/.ssh/known_hosts remained unchanged.
/tftpboot/fai/data/logs/.ssh/authorized_keys created.
User account fai set up.
Using configuration files from /etc/fai-i386
Creating FAI nfsroot in /srv/fai/nfsroot-i386/live/filesystem.dir.
By default it needs more than 380 MBytes disk space.
This may take a long time.
Creating base system using debootstrap version 1.0.10lenny1
Calling debootstrap lenny /srv/fai/nfsroot-i386/live/filesystem.dir http://192.168.1.1:9999/debian
I: Retrieving Release
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Checking component main on http://192.168.1.1:9999/debian...
I: Validating adduser
...
I: Extracting util-linux...
I: Extracting zlib1g...
I: Installing core packages...
W: Failure trying to run: chroot
/srv/fai/nfsroot-i386/live/filesystem.dir dpkg --force-depends --install var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_5lenny4_i386.deb var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.20_i386.deb
ERROR: debootstrap did not complete successfully.
This is mostly caused by a broken mirror.
Please check your mirror or use an official mirror.
dpkg-divert: cannot open diversions: No such file or directory
Aborting
dpkg-divert: cannot open diversions: No such file or directory


The contents of my make-fai-nfsroot.conf is this, on my amd64 box:

NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot-i386
TFTPROOT=/tftpboot/linux
NFSROOT_ETC_HOSTS="192.168.1.1 nfsserver"
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="lenny http://192.168.1.1:9999/debian"
APT_CONFIG=/etc/fai-i386/apt_arch.conf
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--exclude=dhcp-client,info --arch i386"