On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 17:35 +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > I have setup Fai and the messages are OK.
> > When I try to install on a laptop it does not find the Debian sources at
> > ftp.debian.org. All it says is cannot stat..........etc.
> > The install server has no problem with the sources. Is there any clues
> > as to what may be the problem? The /tmp/fai error.log is full of cannot
> > stats for all the required packages. Everything else is working fine.
>
> Does it really fail to download the files, i.e., please check software.log in
> /tmp/fai ; What is the contents of /tmp/target/var/cache/apt/archives?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
Thank you, I have found the problem. I have an ADSL router with an ip
address which needs specifying somewhere but I do not know where or how.
I am at present doing a floppy based install on this laptop which has
found the Debian mirror correctly.
regards
garry