how does FAI know how to run debootstrap?

[John G Heim]

During the install, FAI runs debootstrap. I am trying to install ubuntu 
vivid. It's stopping at the point where it tries to run debootstrap with 
the message  "undefined. Aborting".  I know how to configure debootstrap 
for purposes of building the nfsroot and I know that works (obviously) 
or it wouldn't get this far. In fact, I can type the debootstrap command 
myself after it drops into the shell and it works.

Here are the relevant lines from the fai log. I researched the first 2 
error messages (ftar and base.tgz) and I do not think they are critical 
errors.

Calling task_extrbase
Unpacking Debian base archive
ftar: No matching class found in /var/lib/fai/config/basefiles//
No base.tgz found. Calling debootstrap.
  undefined. Aborting


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John Heim, jheim at math.wisc.edu, skype:john.g.heim