As you didn't change the questions from your colleague just some hours ago, you can also recycle the answers.
The only way to do FAI installations without internet connection(and without any network at all), is the fai-cd, but then you need internet connection on the fai server when creating the cd. No internet(or, better: no apt-repository, you can use the packages from the original cd, but it's more complicated) - no packages. Henning Rajesh pant wrote: > > Hello all, > at last, i, able to connect to client using FAI. > i used fai_action= sysinfo and it worked. > however, when i tried to do it with fai_action=install. The process > started but it couldn't fetch packages from debian repository due to no > connection with Internet. > i have no internet access to client or server. i have used a small cable > to connect the two. > the installation took 556 sec. to install and all i can see is a black > screen with the following message and then a prompt > > GNU GRUB version 0.97 (639k lower / 1039168k upper memory) > > [ minimal BASH-like line editing is supported....etc........ > > grub> > > Is it necessary to have an Internet connection to install a client? > > Thank you for your time and suggestions. > -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de +49 (0) 176 82188257
