Hi, stupid problem again (probably I should try again tomorrow)..
I want to set up a FAI server on an Intel box, but to install to Alphas. (I'm not talking about Alpha specific problems here, since they have been solved months ago, but I had a working ALpha installation back then; now I have to do everything from scratch. See http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/~steffeng/fai/ for details.) So I copied everything from /etc/fai to /etc/fai.alpha, and changed the corresponding references to alpha mirror, new nfsroot path, etc. I also set --arch alpha in make-fai-nfsroot.conf. What I get from make-fai-nfsroot -c /etc/fai.alpha is Creating FAI nfsroot can take a long time and will need more than 230MB disk space in /data/debian/alfai/nfsroot. /data/debian/alfai/nfsroot already exists. Removing /data/debian/alfai/nfsroot Creating nfsroot for sarge using debootstrap chroot: cannot run command `mount': Exec format error W: Failure trying to run: chroot /data/debian/alfai/nfsroot mount -t proc proc /proc umount: /data/debian/alfai/nfsroot/dev/pts: not found umount: /data/debian/alfai/nfsroot/dev/shm: not found umount: /data/debian/alfai/nfsroot/proc/bus/usb: not found umount: /data/debian/alfai/nfsroot/proc: not mounted chroot: cannot run command `apt-get': No such file or directory chroot: cannot run command `dpkg-divert': Exec format error OK, so the mount fails because it's using the one for the target architecture instead of the arch I'm on (chroot ...) Is there a simple way (besides running this on native alpha) to build the nfsroot for the other architecture? (It's kind of hen-and-egg problem since I don't have an Alpha with Debian installed, that's why I tried to FAI...) Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298}