Hi! I have used a different Debian mirror and the problem went away.
Regards, Torsten Torsten Schlabach schrieb: > 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. > > > --- SNIP --- > > > Interesting enough, > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages > > indeed does not exist; just > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz does. > > A bit later, this seems to result in > > --- SNIP --- > > Reading task descriptions... > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched > "linux-image-486" > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "memtest86" > No candidate version found for grub > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "fai-client" > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "cfengine2" > > --- SNIP --- > > So the system is unable to fetch the kernel and also a couple of > important other packages. > > Any ideas what setting is responsible for making apt-get look for the > Packages file instead of Packages.gz on the mirror? > > Regards, > Torsten
