Thanks Thomas and Dominik, I got a weird error as you can see below. I checked and libnet-perl was installed as well as other packages. However, fai complains about unmet dependencies. I have not figure out the connection between nfsroot and portmapper as Dominik's conjecture.
Cheers, Tuan =============== Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: tasksel 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1339kB disk space will be freed. (Reading database ... 7039 files and directories currently installed.) Removing tasksel ... Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Adding additional packages to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot: module-init-tools dhcp3-client ssh file rdate hwinfo portmap bootpc rsync wget rsh-client less dump reiserfsprogs usbutils hdparm smartmontools parted mdadm lvm2 dnsutils ntpdate dosfstools cvs jove xfsprogs xfsdump sysutils dialog discover mdetect libnet-perl netcat libapt-pkg-perl grub lilo kudzu dmidecode Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done wget is already the newest version. Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libnet-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Removing `diversion of /sbin/discover-modprobe to /sbin/discover-modprobe.distrib by fai' ================ On 6/28/05, Dominik Kasprzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cheers, it's good to know I'm wrong. > > I remember seeing that kind of error in the portmapper when I tried to run > the NIS master server setup in a postinstall script before the NIS services > started up. I can only conjecture that the portmapper wasn't informed about > the NIS services. The rpcinfo -p implies that in your case the nfs mounter > is fully working, so maybe nfsroot is looking inside itself for its own > portmapper? > > Dominik. > > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:21:47 +0200 > Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:52:14 +0100, Dominik Kasprzyk <[EMAIL > > >>>>> PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > The error looks familiar and reminds me of the nfs mount failing (the > > rest I think is usual output). In my case this was because I tried to > > mount from the same machine to the same machine and I discovered you can't > > do that. Leaving the DEBIANMIRROR entry blank will allow the setup to > > continue if you're not using nfs for the mirror and if you are attempting > > to use it, can I suggest vsftpd server and a mount --bind command to bind > > the mirror to the ftp server directory to test the working of the rest of > > the setup. > > > > > > You can mount faiserver:/files/whatever /newlocation on the same > > machine by using NFS. I'm doing this since many years. I think there's > > a portmapper or nfsserver problem. > > > > -- > > regards Thomas > > >