Hi, I'm trying to install a Xeon-EM64T box with FAI using the files from http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/amd64/ . Unforunately I'm totally new to FAI ...
There are several issues I ran into: The sources in /etc/apt/sources.list seem to be invalid by now. I used "deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sarge main contrib non-free" instead, but "apt-get upgrade" fails due to libc6 trying to overwrite files owned by base-files (See http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/12/msg00315.html ). I managed to fix that by hand (dpkg -r --force-all base-files is not a good idea though ...), but grub is inoperable as well (seems like "IA32 Emulation" is required in the kernel, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/05/msg00116.html ). The fai server is plain i386 at the moment, but it looks like 1. I have to build a custom NFS root (on a running AMD64) 2. I have to recompile my own kernel or use lilo instead of grub Anyhow the nfsroot and kernel deb provided seem to be completly useless at the moment (or am I missing something?) Regards, Christopher P.S.: Is it possible to install a amd64 system from a 32-bit installation NFS root? -- Christopher Huhn, GSI Darmstadt "We apologize for the inconveniences"