> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:00 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I noticed the 'mount' package isn't mentioned in the /etc/fai/NFSROOT 
> > > file, so trying to create the nfs-root environment
> > > will fail when mounting the chroot environment.
> > > 
> > > When I add the mount package to the NFSROOT file, installation runs fine.
> > >
> > 
> > No, there must be some other problem in your environment. The package 
> > "mount" is
> > essential, thus it will get installed by debootstrap anyway.
> 
> You are right, it fails *sometimes* (I hate these situations). So I will
> have to go debugging further into this.
> 
> One other question though, I do get the lines:
> 
> ...
> `/data/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-486' ->
> `/data/fai/tftpboot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-486'
> `/data/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-486' ->
> `/data/fai/tftpboot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-486'
> DHCP environment prepared. If you want to use it, you have to enable the
> dhcpd and the tftp-hpa daemon.
> ERROR: live-initramfs was not installed inside the nfsroot.
> Log file written to /var/log/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.log
> Aborting
> Removing `local diversion of /sbin/discover-modprobe
> to /sbin/discover-modprobe.distrib'
> ...
> 
> But it doesn't tell where it fails during the installation, everything
> went fine when I look trough the logfiles again
> 
> Any way to find out where it fails?
> 
Ah, that one was pretty simple: live-initramfs is not in Debian stable (after
all, you are taking a package from unstable/testing). You need to get that one
into your local mirror or use 
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln

> ps. you can close this bug as it indeed seems to be something on my end.
>
I think it would be most appropriate if you close it (probably once you have
found the problem on your side).

HTH,
Michael

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