Hi, fai_2.8 suggests (between others) the packages mkinitrd-cd.
In 2.8 some packages have been moved to Suggests:|Recommends: so that the fai package can be installed _everywhere_ (for softupdates) without to many packages pulled in by dependencies. This will will be fixed by a split of the fai package (into fai-server, fai-doc, $whatever) after sarge is released. Oh, btw, mkinitrd-cd is only available for i386. FAI should use something else :-) regards, Holger